Words matter. These are the best Jim Henson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends – a few months after I started working.
When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children’s programming.
No, there’s not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody’s working their own style.
I’ve never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we’re all friends; we’re all good friends.
Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
At the time of Polaroid – and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff – at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we’re trying to go toward a sense of realism – toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we’re mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
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.
We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that’ s what we’re intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
It’s into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you’re trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it’s not so much a symbol of the thing, but you’re trying to do the thing itself.
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.
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
Actually the copies of characters is something I don’t particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there’s only one.
Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
