Post your questions for Terry Gilliam | film

Terry Gilliam has done many things in the past 50 years: he has been a cartoonist, animator, writer, artist, actor, opera director, and title sequence designer. But we can safely say that directing films was his main calling, which is where the bulk of his great work lies since his directorial debut in 1975.

That film, of course, was Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which Gilliam co-directed with Terry Jones, Terry Jones, and is an instant classic if there ever was one. So, to mark the occasion, Gilliam will be interviewed on stage as a Guardian Live event, and we’re looking for questions we can ask him in the evening’s Q&A.

But surprisingly, there is a whole series of Gilliam anniversaries in 2025. Forty years ago, in 1985, Gilliam gave us Brazil, a brilliant recalibration of George Orwell’s 1984, which contains performances from Jonathan Pryce and Michael Palin. Ten years after that, in 1995, we got 12 Monkeys, another classic, with Bruce Willis as a convict sent back in time to try to find a cure for a future pandemic. 10 years later which, In 2005, Gilliam released The Brothers Grimm, with Matt Damon and Heath Ledger – another theme of Gilliam’s work, about the stories, myths and storytellers behind them.

Gilliam clearly has a thing for years ending in fives, and these films are in some way the backbone of his work. But of course there’s a lot more to Gilliam’s resume, from his solo directorial debut Jabberwocky, to his Hunter S Thompson memoir Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, to his final film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

So, leave your questions in the comments below, and we’ll do our best to put as many of them as possible on the man himself.