Jim Henson Quotes

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

The whole reason Sabrina came about was because we wanted something good for families to watch on TV.

I was thrilled to play a role on 'Dora the Explorer,' a show that has touched the lives of many children around the world, including my own child. Dora is such an iconic and important Latina heroine, and I'm proud to now be a part of the show's ever-growing legacy.

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

I'm really proud of Gunsmoke. We put on a good show every week - one that families could all watch together without offending anyone.

If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.

I feel like the best kids shows aren't just for kids.

American families want high-quality children's television programming. Unfortunately, due to outdated rules, broadcasters are hamstrung from meeting market demand.

One of the interesting things about making a kids TV show is that you are in living rooms all across the world and you never know who's watching.

It's a total thrill to be helping to bring the Teletubbies back to life.

A lot of kids tell me that 'Jessie' is their favorite show, and they would have been so sad if it didn't live on in 'Bunk'd.'

I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.

People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With 'Lost,' there are just so many characters for people to invest in.

I forget sometimes that I'm in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, 'The Wire' is my favorite TV show of all time.

I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps.

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

I would wish eventually to be able to make television that informs and educates as well as entertains.

Tune in to Kids and Family Week is perfect for me.

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.

My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire.