Jim Henson Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.”

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

“I think my own strengths are in television production.”

“If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.”