Terry Gilliam's biography

Terence Vance Gilliam is 82 years old film director born at Minneapolis. Terence was born on Friday 22nd of November 1940. Terence is often nicknamed as Terence Vance Gilliam, Terry Gilliam. According to year of birth 1940 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 22nd of November means he is Scorpio. Scorpio is a watery sign. These people are very intense in their thoughts. They always learn from the transformatory phase of their life.

He is native english speaker. Terence is white british. Terence´s primary profession is to be film director. You can know Terence also as screenwriter, comedian, animator, film actor, actor, television actor, film producer. He is recently known as comics artist.

Terry Gilliam's family

Terry Gilliam's wife

She is known as make-up artist. His wife was born on Thursday 1st of January 1948.

Terry Gilliam's ex wife

Terry Gilliam's schools

We found 2 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Occidental College, Birmingham High School.

Detailed informations about his schools

Terence studied high school - Birmingham High School, Van Nuys, CA (1958).

He studied university - BA Political Science, Occidental College, Eagle Rock, CA (1962).

Terry Gilliam's career

His main focus is to be film director. He is famous thanks to Monty Python, Brazil. Terence is also a member of Monty Python.

Is Terry Gilliam gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Terry Gilliam's Awards

Directed a series of TV ads for Nike in 2001. They were part of The Scorpion Knockout Campaign, which featured some of the best soccer players on the globe. That campaign went to win a Cannes award in 2002, in the category of Best TV Campaign.

Terry Gilliam's Nominations

Terence was nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
He was nominated for European Film Award for Best Short Film for work The Wholly Family in 2011

What else you don't know about Terry Gilliam ?

His middle name is Vance.

What Terry Gilliam has done for a first time

The Fisher King (1991) was the first film that he directed in which he was not involved in writing the screenplay.

Terry Gilliam's quotes

There's a side of me that always fell for manic things, frenzied, cartoony performances. I always liked sideshows, freakshows. Jerry Lewis was a freakshow...Absolutely grotesque, awful, tasteless. I like things to be tasteless.
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.
All I do is hunt. I want to be thrilled. And I'm not being thrilled at the moment. So I'm being old and bitter and curmudgeonly, because I want sensory buzz and I'm not getting it!
I think I've got a certain talent and I don't know how to defend it. So I end up defending it more vociferously than it may need, but I always feel under threat. It's a basic in-built paranoia. When people start interfering, I go a little bit crazy.
Hollywood is run by small-minded people who like chopping the legs off creative people. All they want to do is say no.
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.
My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix. I want to be taken into some place, some world, some idea that I haven't thought of or imagined. And it doesn't happen.
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.
Nobody went to see Tideland (2005)! 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.
The reason why I don't watch as many as I used to is that I'm not surprised any more. I loved movies because they opened up doors into worlds I never imagined. It seldom happens now.
I won't be getting an Academy Award - I'll predict that - ever. And somehow, my life will be no less for that!
For me, the only reason to try and make my films successful is that it will be more likely that I'll get the next project off the ground.
Cinemoi is the most important television channel in Britain.
[on filmmaking]: So we create a world that isn't true to a realistic naturalistic world, but is truthful.
[on voting as a member of AMPAS] I just vote for my friends, or do it whimsically, or out of spite in some cases.
[tweeted when Variety accidentally published his obituary] I APOLOGIZE FOR BEING DEAD, especially to those who have already bought tickets to my upcoming talks.
Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.
[1974] Most of the graduates [of my college] become insurance salesmen. I studied political science, mainly because it's easier to major in than art.
My education was very straightforward, utterly normal. I did read a lot, but it was always casual and it came easy. So it was with movies. I never thought of them as anything I wanted to make.
To me college was wonderful. It was like being in this safe secure world where everybody's intelligent and you can start the jokes at a certain level already.
I was born on 22 November 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but we soon moved to a small community in the country outside of Minneapolis called Medicine Lake. I'm a country boy basically. My childhood was a Tom Sawyer-esque existence.
[on his childhood] Privately I was an incredibly selfish little bastard. I'm not sure if the others noticed. My mother still swears I was a perfect, polite, generous child with impeccable table manners.
I no longer want to be a white male, I don't want to be blamed for everything wrong in the world: I tell the world now I'm a black lesbian... My name is Loretta and I'm a BLT, a black lesbian in transition.
Mike [Palin] is everybody's best friend. There's something about Mike that becomes the cement that always kept us [Monty Python] together. He's the one that, no matter how much we hate the others at any given point, everybody likes.
And what I do works in all languages. [Michael Palin: Except English!]
MeToo is a witch-hunt. I really feel there were a lot of people, decent people, or mildly irritating people, who were getting hammered. That's wrong. I don't like mob mentality.
We're living in a time where there's always somebody responsible for your failures, and I don't like this. I want people to take responsibility and not just constantly point a finger at somebody else, saying, 'You've ruined my life.'
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