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
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In New York, we used to go outside film studios and get reels of blank film, and we used to draw on them, do flipper books, that sort of thing.
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Heath is not a public kind of guy and this has been rough for him to be in this non-stop now.
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Heath is not a public kind of guy and this has been rough for him. He has had to go on Oprah Winfrey and Jay Leno. This is just agony for him.
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It often happens with films. You get to the end of production and you find that the film I was making is not necessarily the film that the financiers thought they were getting. What I find normally happens in those situations is that they find a compromise which isn't particularly good for the film, or you get into a head-to-head ego battle which, again, might not be good for the film.
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It wasn't like sitting down and saying, 'Let's see if we can design a film that will capture the book, but maybe work for a mass audience,' ... There was none of that. It was 'Can we translate this book into a film?'
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There I was back in American television with all of the restrictions. I managed to finish my contracted animation, but it was radio animation.
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I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.
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I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!
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The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!
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I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!
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I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
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Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.
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I have always got medicine I want to give to people.
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Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.