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Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

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Terry Gilliam
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 22
Actor
Animator
Comedian
Comics Artist
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Terrence Vance Gilliam
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Overnight
Literally
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Known
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Fantasy isn't just a jolly escape: It's an escape, but into something far more extreme than reality, or normality. It's where things are more beautiful and more wondrous and more terrifying. You move into a world of conflicting extremes.
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John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
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I got tired of my taxes paying for exciting little wars around the world. Then I discovered that when I died, my wife would probably have to sell our house to pay for the taxes in America.
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I do want to say things in these films. I want audiences to come out with shards stuck in them. I don't care if people love my films or walk out, as long as they have a strong response.
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Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.
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The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.
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All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.
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I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
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I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.
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It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.
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The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.
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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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Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.
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I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
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I have always got medicine I want to give to people.
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I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.
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My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.
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I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.
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I hate losing laughs they're rare things.
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