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"At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing."
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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."
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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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