I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

(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.

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.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

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.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.