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
contracted finish radio television
There I was back in American television with all of the restrictions. I managed to finish my contracted animation, but it was radio animation.
happy
I actually think we made it better without succumbing to other people's idea about what would make it better. Everybody's happy now. We're a big happy family.
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.
blank draw outside sort studios
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.
view
He just had a different view of the film.
evening good middle welcome
Hello, good evening and welcome to the middle of the film.
god karl thank
He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.
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.
myths time
of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming.
last seeing seen watch
I know when I watch trailers, that I'm seeing the same ones I've seen the last 15 years,
along chris drive driving guy harry hours leaving perfect remember versions
I was the perfect guy to do Harry Potter. I remember leaving the meeting, getting in my car, and driving for about two hours along Mulholland Drive just so angry. I mean, Chris Columbus' versions are terrible. Just dull. Pedestrian.
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.
dragged full hate movies
I hate being dragged into genres. I like movies that are full of a lot of conflicting and interesting things,
formed grew reading tv
We didn't have TV when I was a kid, ... I grew up reading these stories. For better or worse, they formed my world view.