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

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.

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.

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

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

A good marriage is not one where perfection reigns: it is a relationship where a healthy perspective overlooks a multitude of "unresolvables."

Whether at work, home or school, everybody carries their brain around them, and if the organ suffers from a disorder, we carry the disorder around with us too.

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.