I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

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.

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

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

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

(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.