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Self - George Harrison's Business Manager: Terry came in and said, "I've got this great idea for a film. This kid is in his bedroom and then the cupboard door burst open and a knight comes through and they go through into a time warp and they go in from time to time." I said, "Oh, that's good. Come, we'll go and tell Denis." So, we - went to Cadogan Square to a meeting with Denis. Denis looks at me and he says, "How much will it cost?" There was no script. There was nothing. So, I invented a figure, I said, "Um, three million pounds." So he said, "Okay, off you go." And that was it. We were making "Time Bandits". We had no script. We had no-nothing. We had Terry with guy coming through a cupboard. And me inventing a budget, you know, and that was it
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and said Well I've got this lollipop wrapper
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Yeah Bob great
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Lunch
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You know it's get out of here
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George was interested in making
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stuff that the Pythons wanted to make
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collectively or individually
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All I knew was that Terry Gilliam
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came with two sheets of paper with this idea on it
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and it just sounded like a great idea
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Terry came in and said
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I've got this great idea for a film
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This kid is in his bedroom
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and then the cupboard door bursts open
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a knight comes through
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and they go through into a time warp
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and they're going from time to time
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I said oh that's good yeah
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He says Come we'll go and tell Denis
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So we went to Cadogan Square
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to a meeting with Denis
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Denis looks at me and says
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How much will it cost
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There was no script there was nothing
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So I invented a figure I said Three million pounds
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So he said Okay off you go
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And that was it we were making Time Bandits
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we had no script we had no nothing
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We just got Terry with a guy coming through a cupboard
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and me inventing a budget you know
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and that was it we were off
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Movie Summary
Charts the early years of HandMade Films, seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George Harrison.
