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
successful thinking play
I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.
simple america hair
I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.
well-known wells animator
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
bridges likes hollywood
You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.
mediocrity enough saved
I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
might mediocre be-good
Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.
voice people
Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.
anarchy directors film
I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.
fight
Usually I have my big fight at the end of a film,
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.
maybe
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.
holy line
We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.
dealing fits harvey referring
I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now.
days offer recorded submit took turn
We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.