James Bobin Quotes
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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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'The Muppets' is really about innocence and charm and sweetness and light and having hope - and stupid gags.
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I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.
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No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman.
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When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.
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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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You always want to aim high.
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I worked on both 'Borat' and 'Bruno,' but in a very producer-y role.
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Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.
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The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.
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The thing about me is that my secret passion is history.
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If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.
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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've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society.
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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'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.
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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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The Muppets are always really positive when they come across adversity, and they always have the ability to see the good in people.
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'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.
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Muppet films are never easy to film 'cause Muppets have no legs.
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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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I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.
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Watching 'Dark Crystal' now, having made Muppet films, it really strikes me just how ambitious that film is in terms of the constructs, the builds, the puppeteering.
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'Muppets' was very much an exercise in anti-CG and the anti-effects world. It was very much in camera. We wanted to create a world where tangible puppets walked around and talked to each other. You could touch them. You could meet them.