Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 November 1940
CityMinneapolis, MN
CountryUnited States of America
cut expensive scene
We cut out the most expensive scene in the film!
bitter business complete conspires might side thick toughness tried twisted
Everything in this business conspires to make you bitter and twisted and tough, ... I've always tried to keep a toughness on one side and complete vulnerability on the other. To me, if you get a thick skin, you might as well give up directing.
achieve believe both built forest people realistic stayed time
At the time I was frustrated, but it was the right decision, ... We wouldn't have been able to achieve what we did if we'd stayed on location. The forest was both realistic and believable, and also magical. People can't believe that we actually built all that, but we did.
hollywood middle mud people
Mud has been my middle name, ... Of course, people in Hollywood would say that about my career.
fun good jolly thinks work
Only to my wife, ... Everyone else thinks I'm jolly good fun to work with.
myths time
of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.
basic dividing element line smart time
The musical, Hair, was at the time very smart because it got to that basic element of this dividing line in society... which was hair.
music seem time videos
The only time you get to see something interesting occasionally is music videos but even they've become boring, they seem more and more the same.
beginning wonder
I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to make a movie again,
last seeing seen watch
I know when I watch trailers, that I'm seeing the same ones I've seen the last 15 years,
bad depressing encouraged fact films good review
I like the fact that my films have always encouraged bad and good reviews. The most depressing thing would be a review that was just mediocre. That would kill me,
films gap
I'm just being perverse, ... The idea that after such a long gap two films come out in the same year, it makes me smile.
both collapsed commercial deal films hoping lying saying
I just e-mailed him the other day saying I'm lying to the world that he's still in it, ... We did a deal when 'Quixote' collapsed and we both said we were going to go off and do commercial films so that we could get 'Quixote' back on the road. Well, he did his part of the deal and I'm hoping that 'Grimm' may be my part.
broken career
I read the reviews, my career is over. I'm a broken man. Crushed. Smashed.