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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.
Terry Gilliam
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Terry Gilliam
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: November 22
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I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
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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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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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I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
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