Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
dancing tap-dancing stills
I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.
boys invisible ability
As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.
thinking energy overdrive
I have always had this energy, which I think of as overdrive.
cutting firsts dimensions
From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.
way fancy enough
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
book reality comic
I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.
garden evening scent
I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening.
youth illustrators
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
beauty thinking guy
It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.
running
Eventually we all run out of road.
way distraction gangsters
Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.
equity trading department
I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.
fighting games office
Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.
drinking airplane thinking
I guess ... I'm going to get that ice cream sundae they give you on the airplane. I usually pass on that, but I think I'm actually going to get extra whipped cream and maybe even the chocolate syrup. I'm really winging it here. I'm going to be flying. It's really a little too early to start drinking.