141 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

We really have a lot of ambitions for this film,

Let us use this log cabin as a means of looking back.

Since the show was done in small bits and pieces, we seldom taped anything more than a couple of minutes so generally you could learn your lines.

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

Yeah, all the characters in those days were abstract because that was part of the principle that I was working under, that you wanted abstract things.

When Sesame Street came on - well, it was a combination - we were too busy to do commercials and it was a pleasure to get out of that world.