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
fact looks people together
People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.
It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me.
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.
happened hardly kids time watching
It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.
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.
bad finishing nightmare potential quiet scary spy trying
They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.
bit eric funny keen motivated people shake shock
I was always keen to shock people and shake them up; Eric was a little bit more traditionally motivated in really being just funny all the time.
clever hate love marketing people responses technique
If you're going to be one of the sheep, that our clever marketing technique lures into the theater, you're going to be in trouble. I want people to love it or hate it. I don't want people to say, 'Oh, that was OK, not so bad.' We want to get responses from people, see if they are alive.
came collapse four projects strange time
It was a very strange time, ... After having had four projects all collapse on me, by the time 'Grimm' came along, I was jelly.
nightmare speak
It was like a nightmare working with these guys. Here's how I get through this film: the Weinsteins don't exist. I didn't speak to them.
actual dialogue obligated overwhelms talk
I'm not going to talk about it, ... I won't! It overwhelms any dialogue about the actual movie. Besides, I'm actually contractually obligated not to go into it.
thinking people magic
I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.
thinking magic-realism age
Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.
thinking different downsizing
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.