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.
Jim Henson

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.
Jim Henson

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.
Jim Henson

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.
Jim Henson

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.
Jim Henson

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
Jim Henson

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
Jim Henson

I think my own strengths are in television production.
Jim Henson

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

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
Jim Henson


If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
Jim Henson

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.
Jim Henson

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

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.
Jim Henson

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson

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.
Jim Henson

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

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

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
Jim Henson