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
want sides vans
There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.
well-known wells animator
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
jobs technology tools
Everybody gets excited about technology, but it doesn't interest me in the least. I'm only interested in it if it makes my job easier or cheaper. They're tools.
ideas stories use
The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.
beautiful song beach
Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray.
dirty years film
Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts taking over totally, I allow myself to do a commercial. And then I feel really dirty and get to work promptly.
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.
ambitious trying budgets
Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.
unique stupidity skins
If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.
medicine people giving
I have always got medicine I want to give to people.
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.
creative cheerleader ridiculous
I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!