The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
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When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.Jim Henson
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
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.
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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.
Jim Henson
Yeah, all the characters in those days were abstract because that was part of the principle that I was working under, that you wanted abstract things.
Jim Henson
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