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Jim Henson

"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."

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"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."

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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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"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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"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there."
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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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"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions."
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"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."
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"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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"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow."
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"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television."
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