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.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

My kids were always my test audience. I'd take home the dailies and show them what we'd been filming that day.

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.

You are a product of what you watch as a kid largely.

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.

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.