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Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
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There are so many forms of puppets. The ones on 'Sesame Street' are probably the most simple that we do.
Jim Henson
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Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
Jim Henson -
Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
Jim Henson -
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson -
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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If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
Jim Henson -
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.
Jim Henson
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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 think it's good to be your own person. But individuality is a mixed blessing. People who are 'different' are isolated.
Jim Henson -
Frankly, I'm a lot more comfortable if I'm wearing a puppet.
Jim Henson -
I wanted to do a film where the creatures didn't look like us.
Jim Henson -
I really began to appreciate puppetry while doing Sam and Friends.
Jim Henson -
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.
Jim Henson