Carlos García Campillo

Terry Gilliam:

Unfortunately, it's there. It's what it is. If you make films of a certain size and scale, you're not going to be able to get away from Hollywood. That's unfortunately, to me, the most depressing aspect of Man Who Killed Don Quixote falling apart, because we'd managed to raise $32 million without a penny from Hollywood, without even a distribution deal, nothing. It was me trying to show that we could make it. By European standards, that's a really big budget; by Hollywood standards, it's below the norm. But it was enough money in Europe to make a spectacular film, and I was determined to show that Hollywood doesn't have to be everywhere all the time. But I'm afraid that with the failure, the inability to make the film, we lost that. At the moment, the way financing is in Europe, Hollywood is absolutely necessary. So I think for the next few years, we won't be able to escape Hollywood at all.