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Terry Gilliam Wiki Biography

Terence Vence “Terry” Gilliam was born on 22 November 1940, in Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. Terry Gilliam is a well-know American animator, actor, writer, producer, director and TV personality, perhaps best known as the only non-English-born member of comic group known as  ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’. He has many nicknames including Marty Rigelli and Terry C. Gilliamberg.

So just how rich is Terry Gilliam? Sources have estimated that Terry’s net worth is as high as $40 million, accumulated during his long career in the entertainment industry.

When Terry Gilliam was 12 years old boy, his family moved to live in Los Angeles where Gilliam graduated from Birmingham High School. There he showed himself as a great student and was even the class president. Before starting earning money and increasing his net worth seriously, Terry worked with  Help! magazine, where he was an assistant editor.

His career which later helped to increase Gilliam’s net worth started as a strip cartoonist and animator,  later becoming a member of “Monty Python” – the very famous English comedy troupe. This work influenced Gilliam, so in 1975 his first movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” was released and increased Gilliam’s net worth as it became very successful. This movie was directed together with comedian, actor and director Terence Graham Parry “Terry” Jones. Later Terry became even more popular and his net worth increased considerablyas he started to find his own style while directing movies. He is known as the author of many surrealistic movies, such as “Time Bandits” released in 1981, in which Sean Connery, John Cleese and Shelley Duvall starred. but for the audience Terry is known as the creator of “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”, “12 Monkeys” and many other movies which were directed by him.

The movies created by Terry Gilliam not only increased his net worth, but also gained him popularity as many nominations and awards were received. “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”alone received several Academy Awards (for the best set decoration, best visual effects, best makeup and best costume design), also three BAFTA awards, 4 Saturn Awards, several Silver Ribbon awards and a Hugo Award for the best dramatic presentation.

Nowadays Terry Gilliam remains an active person in show business and takes part in creating and directing  movies. His latest work was released in 2013 , a movie entitled “The Zero Theorem” directed by Gilliam himself and produced by Dean Zanuck and Nicolas Charter.

To better understand what a great actor is Terry Gilliam, we should mention that J. K. Rowling, an author of seven Harry Potter books, is a big fan of the works directed by Terry. That’s why Terry was initially favoured by the author to direct the movie based on J. K. Rowling’s book “Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone”, but Warner Bros, chose Chris Columbus to do this job.

In his persoanl life, Terry Gilliam has been married to Maggie Weston  – who has worked on costume design for many of his films – since 1973, and they have three children. Terry became a Bristish national in 1968, and formally renounced his American citizenship in 2006. The couple are now based in Umbria, northern Italy.

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Terry Gilliam Quick Info

Terry Gilliam Trademarks

1. Frequently casts Jonathan Pryce, Katherine Helmond, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Robin Williams, Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Plummer, Peter Stormare and Tom Waits.
2. Dutch tilt shots
3. [Television monitors] They were in Brazil (1985), Twelve Monkeys (1995), The Fisher King (1991), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and Time Bandits (1981).
4. Heavy use of wide angle lenses
5. Often begins and ends his films with the same shot
6. Often features people/animals bursting through walls or ceilings
7. Heroes in his films often dream of a woman who they have not yet met, but will meet during the course of the film. In the dream, the woman’s face is obscured.
8. Was first known for the bizarre animation sequences in Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969) using cutout pictures and photographs.

Terry Gilliam Quotes

• Missing out on what turned out to be a famously disastrous opening ceremony [for the original Disneyland in 1955] … was about the closest I ever came to real childhood trauma. That’s what kills me; I’ve always wanted the scars, but I just don’t have them. In fact, that’s probably why I had to go into film-making – to acquire the deep emotional and spiritual wounds which my shockingly happy childhood had so callously denied me.
• This argument that we should be quiet and let them mutilate our work, that they’re doing us a favor somehow, is what gets this angry Pavlovian response out of me. You get this same thing over and over. Every film we do, they say ‘It’s too British, it won’t work.’ If they hadn’t been so consistently WRONG and we so consistently RIGHT, I wouldn’t be so arrogant in my attitude.
• I had a scholarship to Occidental College, which is heavily funded by the Presbyterian Church…. I was head of the youth group at the local church, I would go to summer camps and my best friends were the minister’s sons. But, in the end, I couldn’t stand the fact that nobody felt able to laugh at God. Hold on a minute, I said, what kind of God is this that can’t take my feeble jokes? It was the sanctimoniousness and, ultimately, the narrow-mindedness of people who were protecting this deity that I never thought needed any protection. Their God was a much smaller God than I was thinking of – less powerful – and he needed them to protect him. I just got fed up with it because I thought: this is getting dull now and there’s a whole world out there that’s been off limits. That was when I was about seventeen.
• Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.
• [tweeted when Variety accidentally published his obituary] I APOLOGIZE FOR BEING DEAD, especially to those who have already bought tickets to my upcoming talks.
• [on Robin Williams] When the gods gift you with the type of talent Robin had, there’s a price to pay, there always is – it doesn’t come from nothing, It comes from… probably deep problems inside, a concern, all sorts of fears, and yet he could always channel those things and turn them into something gold. I think that just comes with the territory, frankly.
• [on voting as a member of AMPAS] I just vote for my friends, or do it whimsically, or out of spite in some cases.
• [on filmmaking]: So we create a world that isn’t true to a realistic naturalistic world, but is truthful.
• [on current Hollywood blockbuster movies] You just sit there and watch the explosions. I couldn’t tell you what the movie was about. The movie hammers the audience into submission. They are influenced by video games, but in video games at least you are immersed; in these movies you are left out. In films, there’s so much overt fantasy now that I don’t watch a lot because everything is possible now. There’s no tension there. People can slide down the side of a building that’s falling and they don’t get ripped to shreds? The shots are amazing, but if there is no consequence, no gravity, what’s the point? I can’t watch Hollywood movies anymore. There’s no room for me.
• My life is about waiting for money. My life isn’t about filmmaking — that’s not what I do. It feels incidental to what I do, which is hunt for the money, cast movies and re-cast them and try to get projects going or stop them from falling apart. I spend my whole time repressing everything inside of me until I get the money to work, and then I just go. I’m on autopilot until I get the chance to go on a set.
• Cinemoi is the most important television channel in Britain.
• (on Jeff Bridges) If it were up to me, I would cast Jeff in every movie I make. He is that good, such a joy to work with too. He has a large fan base as well, but these guys are real cult-fans, they are dedicated, but they don’t run around screaming at premieres for “more Jeff Bridges!”. The studios, they don’t get this. They don’t think he’s bankable at all, but he is. It’s frustrating, I think, but so very typical.
• (on finishing The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2011)): If you’re going to play with Quixote you really got to play with Quixote. And those were windmills that came along. Those were giants, they killed us once but we’re going to come back. Everybody says ‘Oh, forget about it, put it in the past. Move on.’ No, I won’t because that all sounds so reasonable and I don’t think films should be reasonable. The business we’re in is about exciting people, stimulating people, doing things, changing them, outraging them — it’s not a reasonable business. Especially when you’re spending the gross national product of a country to make a silly movie — this is not reasonable.
• 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.
• I thought this one would be a piece of cake, to get 25 million with Heath Ledger on board (for ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’). You would think that there’s intelligent life in Hollywood. But then you discover that there’s just fear. People are frightened of making decisions or even having – I hate to use the word “vision”, but they lack all of that. Hollywood is run by Goldman Sachs and not by entrepreneurs or studio people. It’s the bankers who look at the numbers, and Tideland, my previous film, made very little money, and Heath did even worse with a film called Candy. And that’s what they look at. Somehow the whole place has been taken over by middle management, like the rest of the Western world. And bureaucracy has settled in very comfortably.
• It depends who you talk to. If you talk to people who have worked with me, they’ll say, he’s the right guy to work with, he knows what he’s doing, responsible… If you talk to Hollywood, they think catastrophes, disasters – he’s a magnet for trouble.’ If it’s easy, I don’t do it; if it’s almost impossible, I’ll have a go. — on what others in the business say of him
• The first subversive thing I did was in junior high school, when I was “head of ground patrol” – in other words the local cop. There was a long corridor, and someone was running down it. I was talking to my friend and it was one of those moments, I just put my foot out and he tripped and went flying. I don’t know why I did it. I think I didn’t like the guy. There was something about the way he was running – I thought, what an asshole.
• I find that what I do is reactive, so if I’m living in London I’m angry most of the time about the state of the world. When I go to Italy I get all blissful. I’ve never done any creative work there except building stone walls. I just wander around looking at birds and leaves. It’s peace. — on his house in Italy
• I’ve always liked gossip, gossip is fun, but whether you believe it or not is something else, and yet the web seems to want to believe. The web doesn’t distinguish between what’s playful and serious. And the speed! What is happening in the web, and all the tweeters tweeting, they become neurons. They are the neurons of the global village. Village is the right word because the village is where the gossip is taking place, it doesn’t take place in the cities. A piece of information comes into that little neuron – whoop – and they’ve immediately got to pass it across the synaptic gap… a big leap into the next neuron… – [he makes a rocket sound] – Whoosh! And off it goes! Off it goes into the next neuron. We’re watching the brain in action, worldwide. The brain is a very simple thing, and the web is the neural structure of our brains, I’m convinced of it. … See, Hollywood was always like that. Agents have to be available 24 hours a day, because they are the neurons of the system and whatever information hits them, they’re off to the next one with that information, there’s no secrets in Hollywood… — on the advancement of gossip on the web
• I won’t be getting an Academy Award – I’ll predict that – ever. And somehow, my life will be no less for that!
• On his conflict with Universal over Brazil (1985): The first thing was that they wanted a happy ending. Then they decided that the theme of the film was ‘love conquers all’. So they started cutting out all the fantasy stuff. It’s one thing to argue about whether you need that scene or whether it can be a bit shorter. It’s another to say, ‘Let’s tell a different story’. And at that point I said, ‘Whoa, it’s time to go to war’. The [Hollywood] studio’s mentality is that Americans are stupid. They try to lower the standard as much as they can to reach what they think is this great dumb audience. And I have always resisted that and wanted to believe in the audience’s intelligence. But if you keep feeding people baby food for long enough they begin to like it.
• 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.
• 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.
• While filming The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009): We were devastated. We spent the whole day – Amy Gilliam, Nicola Pecorini, the director of photography, and myself – lying flat on the floor. Heath Ledger’s dead, and you don’t quite get over that. I suppose I’m in an interesting position because while I’m cutting the film I’m basically working with him every day and he’s fine; he’s in good shape. Ideas are floating around. Then finally we decided, ‘OK, let’s get three other people to take over the part’. And we were lucky because we have a magic mirror in this movie. Not every movie has a magic mirror. So you can very genuinely say that these other actors are different aspects of the character that Heath plays. And it works. The point was, we’ve got to keep going. It was a bit like half being there, but apparently on autopilot I can still do a few things.
• In the end, people have to learn to live together. That is what I didn’t like about America – it is so homogeneous. I like places where there are people who are different culturally, physically, in every way. And I like to see how they succeed in living together.
• 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.
• The more successful I get, the more the onus of having to get it right wants to settle on my shoulders alone, but I just hate that, I freeze up. I want everyone to share my responsibility, the guilt, and I’ll shoulder the blame, because that’s my job in the end.
• 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.
• “My main concern is to protect the film, and sometimes even I can get in the way of the film. If I’m causing a problem for the ultimate film, then I’ve got to be stopped, and I tell this to everybody who works with me. They find it hard to believe, but they finally do say, ‘Terry, you can’t do it.’
• Everybody has their opinion and some people are wrong. One of the things I enjoy about my films is that children really love them. They are open-minded. As we get older we seem to close in. We limit the size of the world we limit everything about it. We have to break that shell open sometimes and (The Brothers Grimm) is just a desperate attempt to do so.
• Whether I like it or not, or whether anybody else does, when I start a film I have a few ideas. And as you’re getting into it, you think, ‘Ooh, there’s another idea,’ and you’re shooting some more and, ‘Oh, here’s another thing. Let’s do that.’ I’m always changing and adding. That’s just the way my mind works.
• (on future use of CGI in his films) “Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he’ s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it’s when you’re now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you’re controlling every moment of that, it’s just death to me. It’s death to cinema, I can’t watch those Star Wars films, they’re dead things.”
• It happens with every film. There comes a part where the money and the creative elements all come crashing together. Everybody’s under a lot of pressure, and everybody is panicking about what works and what doesn’t. And the studios and the money always have one perspective and the creative people have another one, and usually what happens is a lot of compromises get made.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hollywood is run by small-minded people who like chopping the legs off creative people. All they want to do is say no.
• 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.
• 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 am getting tired of these fights [with backers.] Each time you get into a fight the world closes in a bit. You start losing an innocence, a belief that everything is possible. Terry Jones thinks I’m belligerent and egotistical, and that I’ve got to get into a fight to keep me going. It does keep me awake. But I limit it to the fights that are worth it nowadays.
• To be deemed to be OK, to be part of the culture, that’s the kiss of death. When I’m pushing against something it helps me define what I believe. I’ve always been led to see what’s beyond, what’s round the corner. The world tries to say that this is what it is, and don’t go any further, because out there are monsters. But I want to see what they are. So when I talk about the others in the group not having done more, that’s because I really admire them, and I get angry when I see those with extraordinary talents not using them.
• People in Hollywood are not showmen, they’re maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.
• 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.

Terry Gilliam Important Facts

• Retrospective at the 11th New Horizons Film Festival (2011).
• He was approached soon after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) to make a movie involving Beatles songs called ‘All This and World War 3’, but he turned it down and pitched Jabberwocky (1977) instead.
• According to his memoir, Terry Jones actually wanted Gilliam to co-direct Life of Brian (1979) but he wasn’t interested after facing some tension with the Monty Python group (apparently they wouldn’t take his directions as seriously as actors he worked with after, and said he got a different experience on Jabberwocky (1977)), so he was brought on as production designer instead.
• Contributed animations and sketches to Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967); he did one of David Jason’s head on a pig’s body.
• Was J.K. Rowling’s first choice to direct the “Harry Potter” films.
• As a result of renouncing his American citizenship, he is only permitted to spend 29 days a year in the United States, considerably less than the average U.K. Citizen.
• As of 2010, has directed three actors in Oscar-nominated roles; Brad Pitt (Twelve Monkeys (1995)), Robin Williams, and Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King (1991)). Ruehl won her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
• Four of his films are in the Criterion Collection – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), The Fisher King (1991), Brazil (1985), and Time Bandits (1981).
• Member of the comedy group “Monty Python” along with John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Graham Chapman. Gilliam also created the animations.
• Is a fan of science fiction author Philip K. Dick.
• Was offered the chance to direct Troy (2004). He stopped reading the script 5 pages in and declined the offer.
• Gave up his US citizenship in January 2006. [source: Haaretz interview, Feb. 2006].
• He and John Cleese are the only members of ‘Monty Python’ to be nominated for Oscars. Coincidentally, they were both for Best Original Screenplay, Gilliam for Brazil (1985) and Cleese for A Fish Called Wanda (1988). Both screenplays did not win their Oscars, and both films featured Michael Palin.
• The Fisher King (1991) was the first film that he directed in which he was not involved in writing the screenplay.
• Born in Minnesota, he is the only non-British member of the Monty Python comedy troupe
• He did not originally intend to cast Sean Connery as King Agamemnon in Time Bandits (1981), he merely wrote in the screenplay that when Agamemnon took off his helmet that he looked “exactly like Sean Connery.” To Gilliam’s surprise, the script found its way into Connery’s hands and Connery subsequently expressed interest in doing the film.
• Raised in Los Angeles.
• Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.
• Also turned down directing Braveheart (1995), when briefly solicited by Mel Gibson to direct an abandoned film version of Charles Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities”.
• 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.
• Was slated to direct an adaptation of the novel “Good Omens” by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. The project languished in development for three years before finally being abandoned.
• Has been off and on to write and direct a movie adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s graphic novel “Watchmen.” Gilliam has said he attempted to write an accurate screenplay but it would be unfilmable, but he would consider directing it if it were made into 10 or 12-part cable television series.
• Turned down the opportunity to direct Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Enemy Mine (1985), and Forrest Gump (1994) and Alien: Resurrection (1997).
• J.K. Rowling, creator of the “Harry Potter” book series, originally wanted Gilliam to direct Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001), but Warner Brothers studios wanted a more family friendly film and eventually settled for Chris Columbus.
• Father of Amy Gilliam (aka Amy Rainbow Gilliam), Holly Gilliam (aka Holly DuBois Gilliam) and Harry Gilliam (aka Harry Thunder Gilliam).
• Has taken British citizenship.
• During the filming of Brazil (1985) he became so stressed that he temporarily lost the use of his legs, which only returned to normal several weeks later.
• He started to direct “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” in 2001 (in Spain) with Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis and Jean Rochefort but the shooting was unfortunately stopped a couple of days after it started because of numerous factors including storms, lack of financing, and Jean Rochefort’s health problems (he couldn’t ride a horse any more). There is a documentary based on the struggle in production entitled “lost in la mancha”.
• Founding editor of and principal contributor to campus humor magazine, “Fang”, at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA in the early 1960s.

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