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

Puppets have the same sort of graceful aging that cartoon characters have.

I know that it's easier to portray a world that's filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence. That's titillating. It's an easy way out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolve, and to show that you can have a positive impact on your world.

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?