I hope that something better comes along.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.