“I’ve been writing this for three years now, and when we did our first table reading they brought the actual puppets, and they brought out Kermit and they had to stop because I started crying hysterically. It was so beautiful! All he said was, ‘Hi ho!’ I just turned around and he goes, ‘Hi ho!’ and I looked at him and was like, ‘We gotta stop!’ I was freaking out.
"It's the same way when they bring kids to set, something really magical happens. A puppeteer is standing right here with a puppet there, and the kid is looking directly at the puppet. They don't even notice the puppeteer, they phase them out somehow. And every time I see that I think that's why I'm doing this movie."
-- Jason Segel on working with the Muppets on their new movie