Terry Gilliam

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

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.

Quotes

• The underground press was convinced that I was a junkie, an acid head. ... But I don't do drugs. I don't like being fucked up. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.
  • As quoted in Dreams: Gilliam interview by LegitCrit (May 1998)

• We read Dover Books, because you can steal from them. The medieval imagery and iconography is so good for the imagination. Trying to describe the world, trying to describe the cosmos, trying to put it down in neat orderly fashion, unlike reality. And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.
  • As quoted in "Terry Gilliam reflects to Dreams about the making of Dr Parnassus" by Phil Stubbs

External links

• Terry Gilliam at the Internet Movie Database
• Dreams - exclusive interviews with Gilliam and coverage of his films
• Senses of Cinema: Terry Gilliam
• The Terry Gilliam Files - Interviews and behind-the-scenes production stories
• Extensive Terry Gilliam Filmography and Biography
• Terry Gilliam's Cinématon. A 4 minutes portrait by Gérard Courant
• Terry Gilliam: BAFTA A Life in pictures