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born 1940 England

Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam (pronounced /ˈɡɪliəm/) (born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British writer, filmmaker, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.

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People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

I like the Coen brothers. Their films are smart and disturbing.

Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.

The medieval imagery and iconography is so good for the imagination.

Everyone gossips on television; it's all so trivial and it's impossible to hear anything.

Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

Everything has become too political and it is ludicrous.

Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

It's an abominable place. If there was an Old Testamental God, he would do his job and wipe the place out. The only bad thing is that some really good restaurants would go up as well.

And we were lucky because we have a magic mirror in this movie. Not every movie has a magic mirror.

People don't think. My goal in work is to make them think. The media do the opposite.

Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

Television and the media are everywhere and they are taking over so powerfully. They don't shut up for a second. So you are unable to think.

Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

I don't do drugs. … I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.

People are afraid. In the 1960s and 1970s we pushed the limits farther.

Terry Gilliam's flying circus (2006)

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.

I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg — I don't usually admit this publicly — because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it — to use it as a way of luring audiences in.

Nobody went to see Tideland! I was hoping people would get angry about it but those that saw it didn't want to talk about it. This is the world we're living in, people don't want to discuss things that are actually worth discussing.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it — I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Terry Gilliam (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.