Jim henson

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

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 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...

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

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.

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...

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

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.