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Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.
Terry Gilliam
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Terry Gilliam
Age: 83
Born: 1940
Born: November 22
Actor
Animator
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Terrence Vance Gilliam
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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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I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
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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.
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My strength, if it's anything, is that I can lure some big-name actors in. That's probably the strength of almost any director now. On your own, as a director, you've only got so much weight. James Cameron, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay... that's about it. Everybody else depends on the star power that they can draw.
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