James Bobin Quotes
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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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'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.
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I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like.
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I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence.
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'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.
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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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Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect or a linear narrative. It's surreal, it's absurd, it's wordplay, it's satirical, it's analyzing itself, it's funny, it's an enormous challenge.
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Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.
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I've always liked the Muppets. I watched 'The Muppet Show' in England every week as a child. The show was originally broadcast in England.
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As a director, obviously you should challenge yourself. It's important, because it's this thing that takes you away from your family for years. You have to really love the thing you're doing. It's very important.
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Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.