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" I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand. "

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" I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now. "

Terry Gilliam

Now

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Beginning

" You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth. "

" It was lights, camera, inaction. "

" We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies. "

" At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now! "

" There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route. "

Terry Gilliam

Down

" It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits. "

" Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known. "

" I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods. "

" It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me. "

" In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that. "

Terry Gilliam

Office

Time

" There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things. "

" I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days. "

Terry Gilliam

World

Simple

" Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid. "

" They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing. "

" Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired. "

" We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went. "

" John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort. "

" I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker. "