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Jim Henson

"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."

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"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."

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"I think my own strengths are in television production."
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"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."
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"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."
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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."
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"I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right."
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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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"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
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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."
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"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."
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"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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