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And although I'm not exactly sure what [Jim Henson] did, whatever it was really moved me.
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They say state-of-the-art special effects can create the illusion of anything on the screen, and now we have proof: It's possible for the Jim Henson folks and Industrial Light and Magic to put their heads together and come up with the most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects, and I am not forgetting the Chucky doll or the desert intestine from Star wars . To see the snowman is to dislike the snowman. It doesn't look like a snowman, anyway.
roger ebert— Review of Jack Frost (11 December 1998)
And although I'm not exactly sure what [Jim Henson] did, whatever it was really moved me.
— Kermit the Frog, Before You Leap: A Frog's Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons Meredith Books, 2006, ISBN 0-696-23232-4, p. 30.
Jim [Henson] had a lot of respect for puppetry, but not much for the puppet as a physical object. It was a means to an end. If he was giving a live demonstration, he didn't care if people saw him put his hand in the puppet, and he didn't try to sustain the illusion once the performance was over.
— Frank Oz p. 123 (Jim Henson: The Works (1993))
