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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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In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.
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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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The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!
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Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.
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I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
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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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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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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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I have always got medicine I want to give to people.
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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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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 can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.
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I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
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The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.
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Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.
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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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If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.
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I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.
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