No time is wasted time

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

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.