On 25 February 2023, Terry Gilliam was interviewed by film critic Jason Solomons following a screening of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. The recording of this interview has now appeared on YouTube, and is embedded below.
The screening and interview was part of a retrospective of the filmmaker’s work at the Garden Cinema in Covent Garden, London. The questions posed by Solomons covered Gilliam’s entire career, including:
- Reflections on his most recent film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
- Jonathan Pryce’s performance in Brazil
- Casting against type
- Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys
- The importance of Jeff Bridges’s performance in grounding Gilliam and Robin Williams on The Fisher King
- Finding solutions to the Munchausen production problems
- How CGI limits the imagination
- The film that changed Gilliam’s life
- Coming to live in the UK
- The identity of the filmmaker that influenced Gilliam’s directing of The Fisher King
All this and more in this video interview below…