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.

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.

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.

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

She walks in beauty Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

I take classified materials very seriously and always have.

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics have defined our lives.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.