Jim Henson Quotes

It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.

We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside...Inside.

We started off with this fairly grand concept of, if you were to tackle it at a children's level, eliminating war. What would you do?

There must be a lot of shy actor in puppeteering. His work is the puppeteer's statement. It's his outlet. If I had to face the audience myself, as Jim Henson, I'm sure I'd be just a bit shy. But when it's your puppets that face the audience, it's different. That I can do very easily.

Frankly, I'm a lot more comfortable if I'm wearing a puppet.

With puppets, I don't think you should try to duplicate what humans do. It can cause problems.

There are people who think that we should never reveal anything, never show puppeteers and all of that. It tends to be something that parents worry about more than kids, because kids work just at face value.

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.

It's an adventure story. But it's definitely not in our world.

Simple is good.

I really began to appreciate puppetry [while doing Sam and Friends].

I think it's good to be your own person. But individuality is a mixed blessing. People who are 'different' are isolated.

No, I don't believe we've ever designed a character around a person. Usually, we start out with a kind of personality.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.

No time is wasted time