James Maury Henson Quotes

• It’s into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you’re trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it’s not so much a symbol of the thing, but you’re trying to do the thing itself.

  James Maury Henson

• It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

  James Maury Henson

• 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.

  James Maury Henson

• If anything, there’s a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

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• I’ve never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we’re all friends; we’re all good friends.

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• I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

  James Maury Henson

• I think my own strengths are in television production.

  James Maury Henson

• I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you’re right.

  James Maury Henson

• I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

  James Maury Henson

• 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.

  James Maury Henson

• At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

  James Maury Henson

• At the time of Polaroid – and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff – at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

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• And also there wasn’t much money in television in those days anyhow.

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• Actually the copies of characters is something I don’t particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there’s only one.

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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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