www.wikipedia.org defined an auteur as :
film directors (or, more rarely, producers, or writers) who are considered to have a distinctive, recognizable style, because they (a) repeatedly return to the same subject matter, (b) habitually address a particular psychological or moral theme, (c) employ a recurring visual and aesthetic style, or (d) demonstrate any combination of the above. In theory, an auteur's films are identifiable regardless of their genre.
Terry Gilliam.
Terry Gilliam is a screen writer, film director, animator, actor, and a member of the much loved Monty Python group, well known for their "flying circus".
Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.—Terry Gilliam: Salman Rushdie talks with Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam was born on 22nd November 1940 and gained his reputation as an auteur by starting his career as an animator and strip cartoonist, and was an animator for monty python, later appearing in occasional scenes as an actor for the group. Gilliam became a screen-writer and director after the gradual split up of his previous group in monty python. His first film was called "Time Bandits" appearing in 1981, and wrote two other movies, "Brazil" and "The adventures of Baron Munchausen", in a trilogy of movies depicting the "craziness of our awkwardly ordered society and the desire to escape it through whatever means possible."
