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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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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I worked on both 'Borat' and 'Bruno,' but in a very producer-y role.
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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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You always want to aim high.
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When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.
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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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Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.
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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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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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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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I'd rather not ever make anything overly simple just because I'm scared people won't get it.
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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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Muppet films are never easy to film 'cause Muppets have no legs.
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'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.
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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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'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
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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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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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My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.
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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.