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
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.
cut expensive scene
We cut out the most expensive scene in the film!
bitter business complete conspires might side thick toughness tried twisted
Everything in this business conspires to make you bitter and twisted and tough, ... I've always tried to keep a toughness on one side and complete vulnerability on the other. To me, if you get a thick skin, you might as well give up directing.
achieve believe both built forest people realistic stayed time
At the time I was frustrated, but it was the right decision, ... We wouldn't have been able to achieve what we did if we'd stayed on location. The forest was both realistic and believable, and also magical. People can't believe that we actually built all that, but we did.
built magic needed organic original people premise quite script towards wonder work worked
We did a lot of work because the original script, ... The premise was really interesting but the script needed magic. It needed real fairytale, it needed a real sense of the wonder of that world, and working with Lance and people was, we worked our way towards this thing. It was quite organic really, we built this film.
beginning wonder
I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to make a movie again,
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.
obviously
Frankly, it's better than we could do at the time. The text? Obviously inferior! The actors? Better than we were,
bad problem
I don't have a problem (with the bad reviews).
fun good jolly thinks work
Only to my wife, ... Everyone else thinks I'm jolly good fun to work with.
hollywood middle mud people
Mud has been my middle name, ... Of course, people in Hollywood would say that about my career.
dragged full hate movies
I hate being dragged into genres. I like movies that are full of a lot of conflicting and interesting things,
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.
book capture design mass maybe none sitting translate work
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?'