James Maury Henson Quotes

• Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

  James Maury Henson

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• I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems.

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  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.

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• Someday we’ll find it. The Rainbow Connection. The lovers, the dreamers, and me.

  James Maury Henson

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• If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.

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  My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

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• You’re assisting the audience to understand; you’re giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don’t give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it’s almost more pure. It’s a cooler thing.

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• Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

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• 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.

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

  James Maury Henson

• 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.

  James Maury Henson

• 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.

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• When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

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• Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key – probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

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• 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.

  James Maury Henson

• There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.

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

  James Maury Henson

• Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

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• No, there’s not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody’s working their own style.

  James Maury Henson

• NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

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James Maury Henson (34)

Birth:	24th September, 1936
Death:	16th May, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Film Director, Producer, Puppeteer, Screenwriter

About

James Maury "Jim" Henson was born in Greenville, Mississippi, USA. He was an American puppeteer, screenwriter, film director and producer who achieved international fame as the creator of the Muppets. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in home economics, he produced coffee advertisements and developed some experimental films.

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