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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."
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"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."

"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."

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"I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room."

"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."

"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."

"I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television."

"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."

"I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television."

"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."
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"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."
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