I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

You are a product of what you watch as a kid largely.

I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.

Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.

I am always a great fan of keeping things on an eye level for comedy because it plays better.

I never want to make a movie which is going to be CG filled, cold, and computerized.

Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. The Muppet Show spoke to me at 5 and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

I am a great believe that your humor is developed at a very early age and it doesn't ever change.

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.

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses

Good folk, I have no coin, To take were to purloin:I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver either, And all my gold is on the furzeThat shakes in windy weatherAbove the rusy heather.

Just in case the world ends tomorrow, we might as well enjoy today.

You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.

We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

Everyday has to be different for me. Even if people are like, "You dressed up like a character today, it's not Halloween."

The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.