I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.

(Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

Take what you got and fly with it.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

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.

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.