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.

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.

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.

I fix the cramped, lined pageswith my curious stare. How do youcome to exist?

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama.

Such a Saint, such an offering.

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

I feel that very frequently prayer is made a refuge to dodge the action of faith.

As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.

A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.