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"We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went."
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"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."

"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."

"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

"Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart."

"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."

"First drafts don't have to be perfect. They just have to be written."

"Writing 'Book 1: The Maze of Bones' didn't feel much different than writing one of my other novels, but I thought it was very innovative to offer the website and trading card components as well for those readers who wanted to go more in depth with the Cahill experience."

"I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults."

"My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue [is] the pen of a ready writer."
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"Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired."

"John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort."

"I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days."

"At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!"

"There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things."

"I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob. I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation. He was very present at the beginning, winding his brother up. I don't know where he is now."

"There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route."

"In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that."

"You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth."

"It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits."
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