Terry Gilliam, co-director, actor, and co-writer, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[Making Grail] was constantly bizarre and if we hadn't been so naïve and so determined we would never have gotten through it. We shot it in about four and a half weeks for, I think, 400,000 pounds or dollars. Literally everything that could go wrong did go wrong. We just ploughed on. The very first day, the very first shot of our very first movie all on our own, we were up in Glencoe and Hamish McInnes, this great British mountain climber, had built the bridge of death across a great chasm up there. We had to hump all the gear down from the road, down the side of a mountain, across a river, up the other side of the mountain to get to the Bridge of Death, and on the very first shot, the camera breaks. It was like that constantly.

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