Quotes by James Bobin - Page 1

You always want to aim high.
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Aim
Aim High
High
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Everything in culture moves in a cyclical way.
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Cyclical
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Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.
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Creative
Creative Process
Pain
Process
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You are a product of what you watch as a kid largely.
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Kids
Products
Watches
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'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.
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Analog
Muppet
Alice
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Muppet films are never easy to film 'cause Muppets have no legs.
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Legs
Muppet
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Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.
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Fill
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I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.
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Children
Parent
Thinking
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I never want to make a movie which is going to be CG filled, cold, and computerized.
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Cold
Filled
Want
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When you try to teach children things, you're trying not necessarily to do it directly.
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Directly
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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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Muppet
Speaks
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Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.
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Continuity
Thinking
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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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Overly
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I am always a great fan of keeping things on an eye level for comedy because it plays better.
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Eye
Fans
Play
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I am a great believe that your humor is developed at a very early age and it doesn't ever change.
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Age
Believe
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There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.
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People
Rough Times
World
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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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Cards
Chess
Alice
Effectively
Glass
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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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Charm
Innocence
Light
Muppet
Stupid
Sweetness
Having
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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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Tone
Alice
Lewis
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My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.
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Kids
Home
Tests
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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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Band
Tribute
Originally
Sadder
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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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Exploring
Victorian
Love Imagination World
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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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Ruins
Work Movies See
Context
Huge Fan
Ruin
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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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Exploring
New Ways
Pushing
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Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.
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Actors
Joy
Simple
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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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Adversity
Muppet
Positive Good Always
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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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Muppet
Broadcast
Originally
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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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Allegory
Capitalism
Communist
Muppet
Tex
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I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.
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Lovely
Muppet
Thinking
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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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Children
Treasure
Tvs
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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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Muppet
Beacon
Hour And A Half
Smiling
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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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Constructs
Muppet
Strikes
Builds
Crystal
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I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.
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Depth
Ideas
Important
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You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. 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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Forever
Stuff
Way
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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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Entertainment
Performers
Great World People
Great World Live
Entertainment World
Onstage
Stumble
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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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England
Muppet
Treasures
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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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Believer
Early Age
Great Believer
Same Stuff
Very Early Age
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With humans you would say, "Don't stand over there." and that would probably work. With puppets, you can't stand over there because you would see the guy underneath. So it is a lot of foreground stuff.
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Guy
Puppets
Stuff
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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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Comedy
Satirist
Victorian
Commentator
Himself
Lewis
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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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Affair
Good Movies Always
Crown
Diamonds
Panther
Pink
Thomas
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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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Introvert
Normal Life
Life Work Live
Fairly
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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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Different Things
Muppet
Dad Me Remember
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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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Exercise
Muppet
Puppets
Tangible
Touch
Camera
Create
Meet
Talked
Walked
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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.
James Bobin / Film Director
Funny
Absurd
Analyzing
Enormous
Linear
Narrative
Satirical
Surreal
Interested
Cause
Challenge
Itself
Effect
Lewis
Story
Telling
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Cable news is 24 hours long so you have to fill it up with something. 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. It's a joke. Clearly he is a classic, old school bad guy. He's bad not because he works for an oil company but because he's evil. No, it's not a communist movie in any way.
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Old School
Character
Long
Oil
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It doesn't matter if you're good at anything, just try your best. Then there's the idea that individually they're flawed but together they can do amazing things. I think that's a very nice message and it's not something you hit people over the head with. It just comes with The Muppets; it's what they're about. It's that kind of innocent try, try, try quality. And it also makes them underdogs. You can't help but support the underdog.
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Quality
Ideas
Nice
Thinking
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