Terry Jones

“It's just a flesh wound.”

“What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes?”

“He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy!”

“I always think that a director is a kind of idea-magpie.”

“Every single one of our films has been a fight from beginning to end.”

“What I feel is that all comedy is a matter of generating expectations and then thwarting them.”

“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”

“It’s… every sperm is sacred. Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.”

“Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”

“I've led a chaotic life, but I've had a lot of fun.”

“For me, comedy is a story with a joke in it. I can't imagine a story without a joke in it.”

“The nice thing about the Pythons is that we're all so different, and I think that's what makes the show work.”

“And now for something completely different.”

“I wanted to make a film that was like a medieval manuscript, that was full of details that you don't get in the main story.”

“I've always had a thing about medieval history, especially the end of the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages and the early Middle Ages. They are a fascinating period of history.”