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"When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them."
"I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends."
"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style."
"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."
"You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing."
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