Brazil is a masterpiece.

12 monkeys is pure brilliance.

Loved “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” movie, in fact I love every movie he made! He does such original movies and still he hasn’t got the acclamation he so well deserves!

Doctor Parnassus and Tideland are criminally underrated, Gilliam has cranked out some beauts 🤙🏼

The Greatest Filmmaker of All Time! A master and genius.

Fear and Loathing. Brilliant.

“Of course there are vampires. One only has to look at Hollywood.” Sir Christopher Lee

I always have been a fan of Terry Gilliam. I like his films because he puts a lot of imagination into them. On the other hand, his style is amazing to me, even recognizable from one single frame.

My favorite Gilliam film is easily The Fisher King. Probably has something to do with the fact that I studied English history in college and went into radio as a career. The best part was the end, with the fireworks over Central Park as a not even subtle middle finger to the studio machine. "Here's your happy ending, motherfuckers."

It says a lot - too much - about Hollywood that this genius finds himself on the outside.

Lost in La Mancha is an amazing documentary. Highly recommend it to any Gilliam fans.

This is easily the best, brief description of how Hollywood actually works as a business. The studios are not creative entities at all, they are a version of investment banks, and they operate according to the same incentives.

The Fisher King is an absolutely tragic and beautiful story

'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' is still one of my favorite movies. Hollywood are blood-drinking vultures looking for a better corporate quarter and more profit. I truly wish artists could create their work without the 'vampires' trying to suck all of the money from it before and after it was made. USA entertainment industry is disgusting.

Whenever I make a list of my top 10 favorite movies. I am always changing. Most of them. Except for Brazil. Brazil always stays on the list.

Brothers Grimm was so so. Other than that Gilliam is among my favorite movie directors along with Speilberg, Kubrick and a few others. Glad he finally got to do his Don Quixote film. It's pretty good!

The man is a treasure. And Tideland is something else. How the hell did he come up with something like that? Absolutely genius.

People are always talking in an industry like Hollywood and if you get a reputation for being difficult you can carry on as long as you're perceived as successful. If you're not successful _and_ difficult, your opportunities decline.

Terry Gilliam is the best, magic reality

Honestly, if I had a pile of money, I'd give it to an artist like Terry, whether it made money or not. A great film is worth much more than money.

Cinema geniuses almost inevitably run into trouble. Sooner or later, jealousy from other directors finds their Achilles' heel. Or producers trap them in order to gain control over what they'll do and how they'll do it. If there's one thing producers hate about film visionaries, it's the impossibility of controlling them. That's a mortal sin and it explains in good part why Gilliam encountered so many difficulties in realizing his projects. Producers didn't trust his directing style and that generated clashes where the director seldom has the upper hand.

THANK YOU MR GILLIAM!!!!!!

He should make a movie about Hollywood, I'd pay top dollars to see that.

Thanks.

Legend

The line producer is always the most creative person on the payroll.

Fantastic Film

His films are equal parts brilliantly quirky and vastly intriguing. I liked most of them. But just like Tim Burton's efforts, sometimes some self-indulgent and fantastic flights of wonderful and unique imagination (beautiful, gross and yet absurd to watch) gets lost for the sake of telling a good story. Angst wins again in most of his efforts, as a dull coda, leaving me feeling a little void when I leave the theatre. Makes it hard to want to go back. The Wizard of Oz did a lot of the same things leaving me haunted by its melancholy ending that still managed to satisfy and touch my soul. It is unforgettable.

Terry! Thank you for solving the Hollywood riddle. I finally get it.

I often forget that he was born in America and then moved to the UK when he was about 25,

He speaks nothing but TRUTH !! He should be teaching master classes on the business of film making. It’s all so, so TRUE. Hollywood in nothing but a political, closed door, back stabbing regime of morons who know nothing about the craft of storytelling.

What was wrong with Munchausen? Great film.

I recently read that Sarah Polley does not have fond memories of the unsafe working conditions during the filming of "Baron". That said, I love 12 Monkeys.

TERRY GILLIAM IS A GENIUS!!! ALL HIS WORK IS STELLAR❤❤❤❤❤😎😎😎😎😎

These meetings, I got to pitch a story once, TV series, you will find most "execs" waiting for some consensus, something they can latch on to and agree with. Outliers are hard to find...

What does his t-shirt say?

I absolutely loved Baron Munchausen!!! The studio's only look at the money made to determine success vs a movie that people want to see 30 years later. Which is why when a "film critic" says anything about a movie, I ignore it. I'd much rather read about "random bob's" movie blog about the movie, at least he will be honest.

4:38 simple makes sense

So, Hollywood is Brazil. Got it. Who maintains the duct work?

Gilliam doesn't appear to have aged in the past 25 years. Hollywood is worse off without his work.

Munchausen was a cool film...😎😎

He's definitely correct when he says that modern films are getting stupider and dumbener.

Sounds like this is what Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's new company is looking to achieve : give everyone a piece of the pie, with transparent accounting, and everyone makes money, not just "the talent"

Terry G - G for genius.

I'm guessing he was thrilled to get a superstar like Bruce Willis for 12 monkeys, but even more thrilled at what a great job Willis did.

"Eyes down round and round. Lets all sit and watch the moneygoround".

I LOVED Munchausen!

I couldn’t tell if he was talking about Hollywood or drugs.

If Terry was introduced to a Martian colony living in the Bronx. There will be shouting, shots fired and a complete failure of the midtown waterway 😂

In Hollywood example... "Opinion and Rumors are somewhere between Ignorance and Ignorance" Plato

Munchausen was fantastic!!

Well consider how Hollywood has changed even since 2007 in regard to streaming services and profits compared to people making up for loss at the box offices with selling hard copy VHS or DVD like in the 80s and 90s now look at the writers strike too because the creative department is not getting their fair share either guess it gets spent on special effects and casting top stars for parts? Terry makes more art house movies David Lynch said that genre has been dead for years so if you want that sort of thing instead of action or rom comes or slasher movies (popular genres) it's a bit disappointing. I don't know about what happened with Brazil was it too dystopian because 12 Monkees was dystopian and Brad Pitt got a golden globe win for it it was taken seriously by the industry.

A rare genius among us.

Just look at what happened with south park the movie.

To be fair, even people who WORK with him say that he's chaos incarnate. Sarah Polley has written about her experiences publicly, Gilliams claim is that he didn't even have any idea, despite Eric Idle and the cinematographer backing her up. There's no denying his imagination, Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 monkeys are brilliant, some will add others, but to even have three that you wrote or co wrote and directed is quite the accomplishment. Still, some imaginative people likely should stay animators:) Those movies are practically animations given the cinematography, had he gone and done them with Studio Ghibli or something then I think a lot of trouble would have been spared.

Is Terry siting in the chair from Pee-Wee's play house?

I enjoyed Baron Von Munchausen.

The best movie directors of all time, in order: (1) Terry Gilliam; (2) John Carpenter; (3) David Lynch; (4) Stanley Kubrick; and (5) Quentin Tarantino.

I've never seen anything Terry has ever done that hasn't impressed me one way or another. I'd work for him for free. Just saying.

I wonder why Hollywood people are so good and cryptic with money and accountants...

Jews make great creative accountants.

Brazil was too accurate in its perception and storytelling of exactly the sort of world our “libertarian” and our investor class actually does want for all of us.

Has the camera man got ants in his pants? Cant decide what shot to use so chooses all of them in the one take moving around...man, get some training!

I respect Terry hugely for his work on Python and for Brazil. However outside of that, I have not enjoyed or had a good opinion of his directorial work on films like the Fisher King, Munchausen, and Quixote. If I were a studio, I would not back him as his films don't make money as they appeal to his taste and not to popular taste. There are some directors I admire who are not commercial, but Terry is just not as good as he thinks he is. Studios exist to make money. Artists can create, but they need to create films that make money, and if they don't care about their films being commercial, then they are just self indulgent. I think Terry falls into this category. Case in point is Quixote. A marvellous and timeless story. He gets to make his film version and it's dreadful and forgotten in an instant. I doubt that he cares. He could have made a marvellous version of that story but instead just indulged himself with meaningless nonsense. I think that's really sad. He has only himself to blame for his reputation for making non- commercial films.

i believe the proper phrase is: MORE dumber.

Isn't he a nonce tho?

The fundamental problem with Terry is that he's a straight up communist. There's a saying that "all a hammer sees are nails", which best describes his obsession with blaming capitalism for everything. And yet all his visions are expensive with a low reward possibility. The advice is that if you want to make big-budget films, you have to sell out a bit. You can't expect producers to sell your movies if you're not thinking about selling it to the masses. This is also a person that got his break at an extremely young age, made a bomb called jabberwocky, and spent the rest of his career feeling entitled and a victim at the same time. A typical walking bag of contradiction.

wow..this makes so much sense. This is basically why everything that comes out now is a franchise, reboot, remake etc. And they ARE stupid films...

Mr. Gumby!!!!!

Lets hope AI will bring Hollywood down...:)