Few directors have dined out on conflict the way Terry Gilliam has. Just about every film by the American-born Monty Python animator, from his masterpiece "Brazil" to his forever-in -the-making "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote," has run into trouble: money trouble, studio heads insisting he make his films shorter and happier, even a torrential flood. But fighting for his art in sometimes sly ways, he has delivered some of the most original films of his era, among them "Time Bandits," "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and "12 Monkeys" – and, of course, "Monty Python's Meaning of Life." We spoke when he came to Chicago in 1995 to promote "Brazil," which required all of his wiles to get released in America without forced changes.