Jim Henson Quotes

Yeah, I Think We Did The Term Muppets Before We Got The Show Sam And Friends - A Few Months After I Started Working.

There Was A Little Afternoon Show That Was Called Afternoon. Back In Those Days In Television, Most Local Stations Had A Midday Show For Housewives That Had A Series Of Things. It Was Like A Variety Show For Midday.

I Do Remember Doing Shows Strictly In Black And White, Too, So You're Right.

Cara: *flies* Gen: What? I Don't Have Wings! Cara: Ofcourse Not! You're A Boy.

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.

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.

If Anything, There's A Difference In Working With Color In England And The Color In The Us.

If You're Doing A Large, Complicated Character With Radio Controls, It Might Take A Number Of People Several Months To Make It And If You're Talking About A Quick Little Hand Puppet, It Could Be Made In 2 Days, So There's Enormous Range There, And No Real Easy Generalities.

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.

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.

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.