The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise. Nicholas Stoller More Quotes by Nicholas Stoller More Quotes From Nicholas Stoller I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor. Nicholas Stoller muppet england parent A big part of being in a relationship or marriage or whatever is you have to eventually compromise. Your life doesn't end up exactly the way you think it's going to, and if it's the right relationship, you might have to compromise what you're doing professionally. Nicholas Stoller compromise thinking I've been putting together the story with Rob and putting all the details of it together and looking at all the various designs they have for the toys and stuff, it's pretty exciting. Nicholas Stoller details design together It won't be that expensive, the script is fun, the guys just love this thing, and with all of that, the world is just ready for the Muppets again. It's strange that there hasn't been one for so long. I think there were a lot of political reasons for why that was the case but it's just exciting that now it's going to happen. Nicholas Stoller fun long thinking I think the script's actually pretty solid. It really is a labor of love for us to get this thing off the ground. It was scary but then there was the change in leadership and I think that the new guy in charge is basically like, "We should just do this." Nicholas Stoller guy scary thinking Maybe I'm just not that humble but our script is awesome. Like Jason is so into the Muppets and such a fan. I'm such a fan of Muppets. Nicholas Stoller jason fans humble Yes, the fans are going to get their money's worth. It's like...and everything on there is funny. It's not like random crap they put in a movie. I think it's all very funny, so. Nicholas Stoller crap fans thinking Every video you see in the movie we have an entire video of it that will be on the DVD, so the whole video for African Child, the whole video for Super Tight, you know the Jackie Q songs. Nicholas Stoller dvds song children We have tons of live performances that we're putting on there. We have music videos. There's a music video for the song called I Am Jesus what is one of the funniest music videos, like we just could not find a place for it in the movie, but it's like crazy funny. And we have the whole video. Nicholas Stoller crazy song jesus And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like people are like none of the jokes in the trailers are like in the movie. And it's like and we have whole sequences and scenes that weren't in the movie. Nicholas Stoller stuff mean people I never liked the extended cut personally because I like...we spend a lot of time figuring out our final cut. We test and test and test it, whatnot. Having said that, there's one sequence we're adding back into the movie for the extended cut that is pretty amazing that I think people are going to love. Nicholas Stoller cutting people thinking They literally have what they would call "a four-quadrant" movie that they could just release at any moment. Parents want to go there, kids want to go there, hipsters want to go there. It's like everyone will want to see it. Nicholas Stoller hipster parent kids Yeah, because we wanted to go back to the original tone. It's one of the original movies like The Muppet Movie, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Great Muppet Caper. Those kinds of movies. So that was really important that we hit that tone and those have a lot of cameos in them and so Jason and I started asking people and everyone we asked just wants to do it. Nicholas Stoller jason important people I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun. Nicholas Stoller actors fun world All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie. Nicholas Stoller animation animated people For my wife and I, our first child was really easy to have, but our second one was really hard to have. We had to go to a lot of fertility clinics and do that whole thing. Nicholas Stoller wife children firsts When I write something, it's usually 'cause I think it's funny or I have a way in, but when I direct something, I really need to be close to it. Nicholas Stoller writing needs thinking All of the things I've directed, I'm really emotionally close to. That's why I choose to direct them and spend years on them. Nicholas Stoller direct years When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director. Nicholas Stoller creative writing directors Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that. Nicholas Stoller cynical wall self
