Gilliam on his second try at DON QUIXOTE

In an interesting interview mostly focused on his latest movie, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Terry Gilliam discusses some of the disasters that have plagued his various productions. He's now prepping another run at The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, an earlier, aborted project that was so epically troubled that it spawned a hit documentary, Lost in La Mancha. If you saw the documentary, you know just how crazy it is for Gilliam to try again. But as Gilliam sees it, making any movie is a crazy business - or should be, at any rate.

If you're going to play with Quixote you really got to play with Quixote. And those were windmills that came along. Those were giants, they killed us once but we're going to come back. Everybody says "Oh, forget about it, put it in the past. Move on." No, I won't because that all sounds so reasonable and I don't think films should be reasonable. The business we're in is about exciting people, stimulating people, doing things, changing them, outraging them -- it's not a reasonable business. Especially when you're spending the gross national product of a country to make a silly movie -- this is not reasonable.

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