Jim Henson Quotes
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Puppetry's a lot harder than people realize, and it's particularly difficult doing a movie. You have this scene with all these puppets, and when something goes wrong, you've got to set the whole thing up to do it again. With people, you ask an actor to walk across the room a second or third time, and he does it. That's it.
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Even as a kid, I felt isolated. Isolation makes you sensitive. As a kid, I felt I was the only person who was like that. But there's a good side to isolation. It makes you sensitive, and sensitivity is part of the creative process.
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I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
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It's an adventure story. But it's definitely not in our world.
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If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
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My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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I think it's good to be your own person. But individuality is a mixed blessing. People who are 'different' are isolated.
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There are so many forms of puppets. The ones on 'Sesame Street' are probably the most simple that we do.
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Frankly, I'm a lot more comfortable if I'm wearing a puppet.
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With Big Bird we knew we wanted to do a large, a great big character. He should represent a child so he can make the kinds of mistakes that kids make, and talk about it and be out front about that.
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When you trick people into laughing at themselves, that's wit. If you don't laugh at yourself, everything becomes heavy.
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I really began to appreciate puppetry while doing Sam and Friends.
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I know parents are often concerned: 'Oh, no, I wouldn't take my kids into the studio because it would destroy all their illusions.' It's a fairly adult concept.
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I wanted to do a film where the creatures didn't look like us.