America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.


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JIM HENSON
Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I ...
JIM HENSON
There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most ...
JIM HENSON
I think my own strengths are in television production.
JIM HENSON
It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gor...
JIM HENSON
NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale o...
JIM HENSON
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working t...
JIM HENSON
Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantag...
JIM HENSON
I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
JIM HENSON
Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several o...
JIM HENSON
When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like t...
JIM HENSON
At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that s...
JIM HENSON
It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that peop...
JIM HENSON
I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all ...
JIM HENSON
At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in...
JIM HENSON
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them...
JIM HENSON
I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
JIM HENSON
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - to...
JIM HENSON
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
JIM HENSON
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...
JIM HENSON