There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.

If the studios paid the artists, how would they ever be able to afford the executives?

Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

One of the reasons we moved to L.A. in the first place [was] so that it was no big deal that I was in show business. We decided if we move[d] to L.A., then everyone in one way or another was involved in it.

Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist