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" You always want to aim high. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "