English - Director | 1972 -
If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.
James Bobin
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Muppet films are never easy to film 'cause Muppets have no legs.
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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.
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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.
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There's nothing sadder than being in a tribute band - especially a tribute band for your own thing you did originally.
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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.
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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.
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Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.
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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.
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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.
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'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.
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The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.
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