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Jim Henson (Film Director)

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
— Jim Henson you
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.
— Jim Henson hope
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
— Jim Henson hope
The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
— Jim Henson people
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
— Jim Henson art
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.
— Jim Henson art
I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
— Jim Henson friends
When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.
— Jim Henson children
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
— Jim Henson wit
Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
— Jim Henson man
I think my own strengths are in television production.
— Jim Henson strength
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
— Jim Henson age
It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
— Jim Henson
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 people
Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
— Jim Henson time
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.
— Jim Henson vision
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 war
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.
— Jim Henson people
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
— Jim Henson courage
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.
— Jim Henson you
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
— Jim Henson work
Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
— Jim Henson body
I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
— Jim Henson pain
Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.
— Jim Henson art
If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
— Jim Henson work
Lifes like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
— Jim Henson you
Theres not a word yet for old friends whove just met.
— Jim Henson friends
When you trick people into laughing at themselves, thats wit. If you dont laugh at yourself, everything becomes heavy.
— Jim Henson people
If any-thing, theres a difference in working with color in England and the color in the U.S.Page 68.
— Jim Henson work

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