Gilliam, who made Brazil and The Fisher King, is at home in the realm of fantasy, a counterpoint to a world "of numbers, of calculations, where there's very little time for myths and dreaming."
"I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world."
The director revealed his favorite fairy tale isn't a Grimm fairy tale at all, but by Hans Christian Andersen.
"It's The Emperor's New Clothes, where only a child can see a truth that everyone else is deluded by."
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