Jim Henson Quotes

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I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

Jim Henson
Many creative people have a certain degree of dissatisfaction with the status quo, the established way. If you look at things differently, you are thought of as 'different.' In turn, 'different' people are thought to be 'mad.'

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I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

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With puppets, I don't think you should try to duplicate what humans do. It can cause problems.

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If any-thing, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the U.S.

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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

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I know parents are often concerned: 'Oh, no, I wouldn't take my kids into the studio because it would destroy all their illusions.' It's a fairly adult concept.

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Frankly, I'm a lot more comfortable if I'm wearing a puppet.

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The puppets in 'Dark Crystal' were very complicated, and some quite unpleasant. In that movie, I think we got into areas a bit too realistic.

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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

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Even as a kid, I felt isolated. Isolation makes you sensitive. As a kid, I felt I was the only person who was like that. But there's a good side to isolation. It makes you sensitive, and sensitivity is part of the creative process.

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Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!

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If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

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Puppetry's a lot harder than people realize, and it's particularly difficult doing a movie. You have this scene with all these puppets, and when something goes wrong, you've got to set the whole thing up to do it again. With people, you ask an actor to walk across the room a second or third time, and he does it. That's it.

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I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too.

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I really began to appreciate puppetry [while doing Sam and Friends].

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I wanted to do a film where the creatures didn't look like us.

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There must be a lot of shy actor in puppeteering. His work is the puppeteer's statement. It's his outlet. If I had to face the audience myself, as Jim Henson, I'm sure I'd be just a bit shy. But when it's your puppets that face the audience, it's different. That I can do very easily.

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With 'The Muppet Show' we used to play with a lot of different styles. That's what it was: a variety thing.

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The whole idea with the show from the start was to go international.

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No, I don't believe we've ever designed a character around a person. Usually, we start out with a kind of personality.

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We started off with this fairly grand concept of, if you were to tackle it at a children's level, eliminating war. What would you do?

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A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

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

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With Big Bird we knew we wanted to do a large, a great big character. He should represent a child so he can make the kinds of mistakes that kids make, and talk about it and be out front about that.

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Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us—a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

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A lot of the shows relate to interrelationships and attitudes, again, always trying to do it within the context of a very entertaining show.

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There's great value in being able to step back and laugh at yourself, at life and at attitudes. Laughter helps you put everything into perspective.

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I'm sure Kermit will stay young a lot longer than I will.

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I always felt that I was not a part of things in general. I've always been outside of things.

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