141 Quotes by Jim Henson

the most profound effect on children of any entertainer of his time.

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 you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.

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

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

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

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

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.