We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
From Terry Jones
Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.
I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines.
Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats.
We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.
We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.
The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
I've never been good at improvising.
Fatherhood is wonderful.
I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.
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