SOURCE: “The Mad Adventures of Terry Gilliam,” in Sight and Sound, Vol. 57, No. 4, Autumn, 1988, pp. 238–42.

In the following interview, which took place on location during the filming of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Gilliam discusses the progress of the film.

‘I get the feeling that, a bit like Brazil, the making of the film is going to be like the film itself. Where Brazil was about a nightmare, this one is about impossibility and overcoming it, and trying to push through a lot of things and a lot of people who don’t think they can do it, because they are realistic.’

Terry Gilliam obviously knew, perhaps better than anyone, the impossibility of creating his new film. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Just before shooting began in September last year, the director admitted what everyone has been trying to tell him ever since: the film cannot be done...