I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to make a movie again, |
I was so depressed after Munchausen that I didn't know what I was going to do. I just really wanted to pack it in. I really had lost it completely. |
I was the perfect guy to do Harry Potter. I remember leaving the meeting, getting in my car, and driving for about two hours along Mulholland Drive just so angry. I mean, Chris Columbus' versions are terrible. Just dull. Pedestrian. |
I was thinking maybe I made a mistake and it should have been salsa. But I was trying to get Matt to move differently than we have seen him move and so the tango (Gilliam stops talking and starts dancing) ... and so I forced him to take tango lessons. It's going to serve him well in later life, roses between his teeth. |
I'm just being perverse, ... The idea that after such a long gap two films come out in the same year, it makes me smile. |
I'm not going to talk about it, ... I won't! It overwhelms any dialogue about the actual movie. Besides, I'm actually contractually obligated not to go into it. |
I've found that the British have always been better at questioning than the Americans. The Americans are more fascistic in their approach to filmmaking... |
If you're going to be one of the sheep, that our clever marketing technique lures into the theater, you're going to be in trouble. I want people to love it or hate it. I don't want people to say, 'Oh, that was OK, not so bad.' We want to get responses from people, see if they are alive. |
It often happens with films. You get to the end of production and you find that the film I was making is not necessarily the film that the financiers thought they were getting. What I find normally happens in those situations is that they find a compromise which isn't particularly good for the film, or you get into a head-to-head ego battle which, again, might not be good for the film. |
It was a hard shoot, |
It was a very strange time, ... After having had four projects all collapse on me, by the time 'Grimm' came along, I was jelly. |
It was lights, camera, inaction. |
It was lights, camera, inaction. |
It wasn't like sitting down and saying, 'Let's see if we can design a film that will capture the book, but maybe work for a mass audience,' ... There was none of that. It was 'Can we translate this book into a film?' |
Mud has been my middle name, ... Of course, people in Hollywood would say that about my career. |