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

— Jim Henson

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

— Jim Henson

#anyhow #days #money #much #television

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

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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

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I think my own strengths are in television production. ↗

— Jim Henson

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

— Jim Henson

#color #difference #england #us #working

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

— Jim Henson

#been #big #bird #difficult #england

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

#bag #believe #create #into #itself

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

— Jim Henson

#between #competition #everybody #general #much

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

— Jim Henson

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