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"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them."

"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."

"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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