Jim Henson: The Biography

by Brian Jay Jones

“He would encourage you to be as crazy as possible, because when you’re inhibited as a performer, you can’t be creative. Because he would be silly, everyone else would be silly.”

“The best thing of all,” Oz said warmly, “was to watch Jim laugh until he cried.”

“Jim always said that you are where you are because that’s where you need to be,” said Erickson, “and if you need to move on, you will move on.… He was not worried that people went off to do their own thing because he knew that other people were coming in. He felt it was really important to have fresh, new ideas.”