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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.”
“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.”
“'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.”
“You always want to aim high.”
“'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.”
“If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.”
“Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.”
“'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.”
“The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.”
“'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.”
“The thing about me is that my secret passion is history.”
“Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.”
“I worked on both 'Borat' and 'Bruno,' but in a very producer-y role.”
“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.”
“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.”