Thanks as always!
I think PIXAR probably won't have the guts to work with such unconventional guy like Gilliam, after all their movie is under the realm of DISNEY and could only take limited part of artistic freedom
like UP, after ten minutes it all went down hill to the typical Disney stuff until the redeemed final segment.

I would much rather see Gilliam work with studio like GHIBLI or some other Janpanese animation masters

I agree with you completely. Gilliam is more suited for Japanese animation

The thought of Terry Gilliam with the creative powers of Pixar at his back is both terrifying and awe inspiring - can't see it ever happening.

"things that can’t really be public… yet."

Tease. :P

I'0m e-mailing to Charles McKeown a link to the video in this very moment

Hey Brendon, is that you being interview briefly for Avatar at the Imax for the BBC?

Thought I recognized the voice.

Hey! It is! I didn't know, so thanks for telling me.

Great interview, may I ask where it took place?

Thanks! At the BFI Southbank.

Pixar has a lot of freedom but they do still have to work with Disney. I honestly think Gilliam can do a project that Disney would actually endorse but I also think that It definitely would have to be in the vein of what Pixar has already done. Something more akin to maunchausen than 12 monkeys.

This would be a dream team! Can you imagine a TG film without ANY limitations?
Ignore Disney, they'd be bankrupt if it weren't for Pixar and Lasseter righting that old boat. If Pixar wanted to throw it's weight around and make a film with Terry, they could make it happen.

Still a long shot, but one worth taking.

I'm constantly impressed and inspired by Gilliam how resilient and optimistic he is able to remain. Glad to see how well Parnassus seems to be turning out and hope he and Pixar are able to find an appropriate project to work together on. I live in San Francisco and I've applied for several menial positions at Pixar before just to be around it as well, hope they let him direct something so I can sweep the floors ;)

i mean no offense at all in saying this, but i think gilliam working at pixar would be a TERRIBLE idea. pixar works the way it does, because it has (for the most part) kept outside filmmakers from entering its nucleus. not only is TG a different type of filmmaker, but he is a juggernaut of creative juices. i don't see the mix working well together at all. however...

giving TG the pixar technologies to have at his disposal to make a film of his choosing...that's a horse of a different color.

I think for the most part that has more to do with Pixar being relatively young and projects taking several years to develop more than excluding outside directors. Brad Bird had outside experience before working with Pixar and it sounds like Gilliam would be coming in with quite a bit of humilty.

omg terry gilliam!

You hear that? He still has his American accent. Boom

But not his American citizenship.

Great interview, Gilliam is a class act. The stuff he was saying about Don Quixote being a complete original makes the project even more intriguing.

Gilliam would not work well with the teamwork structure that makes Pixar so standalone. They're a think tank and he's all about singular authorship. AND he's getting crotchety, if you read that Vanity Fair article a month or two ago. Why would anyone want to work with a guy so willing to throw business partners and collaborators under the bus?

I don't know where you got these ideas about Gilliam being about "singular authorship" and resisting teamwork from but they aren't in evidence in either Getting Gilliam, Lost in La Mancha, the recent BFI Q&A, his actual films themselves or... well, or anywhere else.

This is a man who *compromised* with the Weinsteins.

And his perceived crotchetiness in the Vanity Fair article comes down to three factors: Peter Biskind, the topic being discussed and a pre-conception that he's a bit difficult.

I've never heard of Gilliam throwing a collaborator to the Lions, only him standing up to those trying to push him into the Lions' den.

Fans of his work look to and admire Gilliam as an auteur, in that they can look at every decision in the eventual picture as his, whether or not he originated the idea. Be it a production designer/collaborator for whom he endorses, or a studio head he must legally lay down for, this visionary director is, at the end of the day, not taking his name off a picture, whether the name of it is ‘The Brothers Grimm’ or the first cut of ‘Brazil’. He’s not the only authoritative director with bad luck or compromise in his history, just the most publicized and renowned of them. You might agree (or not) that even his flawed movies are at least interesting shit storms in that he’s attempting an acute vision, outcome regardless. Many filmgoers buy tickets to his movies for the reason of seeing his voice, and not the actors or anything else that might be working components within that voice. He’s not taking his name off these pictures, essentially standing by whatever convoluted effort he fought for.

My skepticism in considering Gilliam at Pixar comes down to character. Assuming Terry knew who Peter Biskind was before the interview, and the nature of VF articles in general, do you not find it a bit tasteless what this director, desperation or career stagnation regardless, is publicly saying about the people his friend Depp employs? Without being here nor there regarding the actor, it’s obvious Johnny Depp has probably pulled about as much weight for the director as anyone else who has had the pleasure of working with him, and yet because the actor, post-Jack Sparrow, is in a different place in his career, his director friend defames the committee whom he employs, as if other successful stars don’t have a similar team protecting their interests. And if you look at Gilliam’s last few movies, keeping Johnny Depp away from him could be seen as protecting the actor’s interest. My point is, Pixar employees, and especially the Pixar directors who are more visible in the public eye, are not usually characterized for their resentment. And Gilliam seems to know this if he’s willing to mop the floors of computer bays to compensate.

Any way you cana get someone to transcribe these interviews? I can't watch videos as work and as a result stay away from this site since all the content seems to reside in video format.

You lucky bugger. I could pick that man's brain for a year before I even got to the topic of Monty Python. They would have had to drag me out of that interview room screaming, "Wait! Wait! Just one more question!" He is, in my humble opinion, our greatest living director. If he were to team up with Pixar, that. would. be. AWESOME!

if you're going to post more video interviews you should learn how to frame them properly.
not being a dick, just constructive.

Oh Terry Gilliam....

Don't ever change for anyone.

I'm getting to see him speak next week [& possibly get to meet him!] & I am SO looking forward to it. He seems like such a wonderful man. I can think for days about what goes on in that ultra-creative head of his!

"Don't rush?"

Cock. I thought A Scanner Darkly was a fantastic translation.