35 Quotes by James Bobin

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.

When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.

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.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

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.

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.

'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

I've always loved 'Alice,' and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence.