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

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I think my own strengths are in television production.

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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.

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There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.

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

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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.

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Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: September 24th, 1936

Died: May 16th, 1990

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