Monty Python Speaks! Quotes

“I mean, I enjoy arguing, not in an angry sense, but I love to test the strength of arguments. Because if someone can tell me something that I didn’t know—an argument I hadn’t thought of, or a piece of information I didn’t have—I love it. And people sometimes interpret that—my ex-wife does!—as that I’m bullying people. And that’s not what I think I’m doing. What I think I’m doing is testing the argument, because if someone can give me a good argument, I have no problem about taking it on board. It’s also that I need to understand. I get very frustrated when I don’t understand something. When somebody knows something and I want to understand what it is they know and they can’t explain it in a way which I can take in (which would be my fault), I get very frustrated.”
― David Morgan, Monty Python Speaks, Revised and Updated Edition: The Complete Oral History

“Because he would not let things go, Terry had a doggedness which sometimes was very useful and sometimes could be an irritant to other members of the group, because I think in the dynamics of the group it’s counterproductive. Terry argued for too long; I think he’s probably aware of that himself. [There’s] a certain point where your own view has to be compromised for the unity of the group, and if you’re not prepared to do that, then I think very often the reaction against you is much stronger than it would be if you’d compromised in the first place—you actually lose more ground.”
― David Morgan, Monty Python Speaks: The Complete Oral History of Monty Python, as Told by the Founding Members and a Few of Their Many Friends and Collaborators – Inside British Comedy's Revolution