If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.
Jim HensonI think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.
Jim HensonThe most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.
Jim HensonYeah, 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.
Jim HensonActually 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.
Jim HensonI know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.
Jim Henson