The Terry Gilliam School of Film: 10 Tips for Directors

Posted on January 4, 2012 in Directing | 2 Comments

The visionary director of Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam offers 10 tips for the Directors of today:

1. Growing up is for losers.

As a child, I always drew funny creatures, funny characters. But I think the trick is not to grow up, not to learn to be an adult. And if you can maintain the kind of imagination you all had when you were babies, you would all be wonderful filmmakers. But the world tries to make you grow up, to stop imagining, stop fantasizing, stop playing in your mind. And I’ve worked hard to not let the world educate me.

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