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

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

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 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.

It's a wonderful life and I love it.

Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift.

Yeah, 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.