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

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.

Take what you got and fly with it.

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.

The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.