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" I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence. "

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" You always want to aim high. "

" I am a great believer that your humor is developed at a very early age, and it doesn't ever change. You're basically the same person forever, so you find the same stuff funny forever. "

" The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love. "

" Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It's surreal, it's absurd, it's wordplay, it's satirical, it's analyzing itself, it's funny, it's an enormous challenge. "

" I worked on both 'Borat' and 'Bruno,' but in a very producer-y role. "

" It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half, and then you go outside, and the economy is in crisis. "

" I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story. "

" Muppet films are never easy to film 'cause Muppets have no legs. "

" I'm probably an overcompensating introvert. I live in Hollywood, but I don't go to parties where I have to work the room. I could do that, but I don't want to... I try and stay the same and live a fairly normal life. "

" There's nothing sadder than being in a tribute band - especially a tribute band for your own thing you did originally. "

" In England, 'The Muppet Show' is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy, basically. "

" My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins. "

" I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like. "

" No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman. "

" When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly. "

" 'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way. "

" Personally, I've always liked movies about big diamonds, like 'Pink Panther' and 'The Thomas Crown Affair.' I've always found those films really interesting, and they have a good energy about them, which I like. "

" I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it. "

" Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something. "

" I remember watching 'The Muppet Show' in the '70s. I was six or seven, and my dad watched it with me, and my grandparents watched it with me, and we're all laughing throughout, but I think we were probably laughing at different things. "

" The Muppets are always really positive when they come across adversity, and they always have the ability to see the good in people. "

" The thing about me is that my secret passion is history. "