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Terry Gilliam

lines on the record: 57
first: 2011-04-10
most recent: 2011-04-10
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Well, compared to the others, yeah, I really was, I mean, I was always the laughing stock, and strange enough, I still feel that we were on about a year ago we were in New York, it was the fortieth or forty fifth or whatever anniversary of Python. We were on a television show and all of us were there. And I just felt constrained once again because the others were so quick verbally and I couldn't compete and so I just sat there quietly.”
2011-04-10 · Desert Island Discs · Terry Gilliam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I suppose I had the most freedom of anybody in the group because what I was doing was clearly different from what they did. Early on at the beginning we decided to get rid of punchlines because so often in previous shows you'd seen a great sketch, a great character and great ideas and suddenly it needed a punchline and the punchline was never as good as the sketch itself. I mean, the way we would work oftentimes it was just that they would reach the end of a sketch and not know where to go, and they'd say, Gilliam takes over here and gets us to the next bit. With his visual sense and these images and doing this strange cutout business that nobody else could do. My animations gave it, I suppose, another level, a different coloring, and part for the nonverbal people to enjoy it.”
2011-04-10 · Desert Island Discs · Terry Gilliam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ah, it's one of those moments when you're going through life thinking it's all sweet and lovely and you're clean and brushed and suddenly you're dragged down a dark alley and it was heartbreak hotel. I was sitting in a car somewhere in southern California one night and suddenly the song came on. I thought uh oh, the world has just changed. It turned ninety degrees and dragged me with it.”
2011-04-10 · Desert Island Discs · Terry Gilliam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I've always felt that the well is very shallow. My wife thinks I keep making the same movie, I just change the costumes and the sets. It's invariably somebody trying to fight against the system, trying to get off the ground to try to defy gravity. Somebody who doesn't want to be limited, and that seems to be the theme in all of them. And I do find myself repeating myself, or I suspect I'm repeating myself, and I don't want to be caught out. So maybe it's good that it's harder for me to raise money and make movies. If I made more, they would discover I only have this one idea.”
2011-04-10 · Desert Island Discs · Terry Gilliam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it's just the opposite. I've always liked the extremes, the edges. I like to know where the cliff is, where the cliff face is, but you only find out by stepping off. It's usually wandering around in the dark, fumbling through forests that you can't see the end of. And suddenly you're falling.”
2011-04-10 · Desert Island Discs · Terry Gilliam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Neither is nature and nature's come in and taking its toll as it always does, and the business, I suppose, is changing all the time like most it's squeezing out the middle range of filmmaking at the moment because either you make a film for less than 10 million or 100 million. I'm one of the middle ground people, so I'm actually middle class when it comes to filmmaking. And that's about all I'm middle class in.”
2011-04-10 · Desert Island Discs · Terry Gilliam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh God, I always thought I was normal, and then I discovered I wasn't, and now I'm just weary, I think is the word. It's creeping in weariness.”
2011-04-10 · Desert Island Discs · Terry Gilliam · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source