Jim Henson Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

  Real, Character, Numbers

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• 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.

  Jim Henson

  Fun, Rocks, Design

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• 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

  Thinking, Style, Together

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• 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

  Black And White, Nbc, Color

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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

  Dark, Reality, Trying

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

  Jim Henson

  Black And White, Remember, Shows

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• Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

  Jim Henson

  Boys, Wings

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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.

  Jim Henson

  Afternoon, Television, Littles

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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.

  Jim Henson

  Thinking, Months, Muppet

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