 When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming. |
| I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. |
| When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. |
| No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style. |
| We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. |
| I think my own strengths are in television production. |
| I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends. |
| 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. |
