As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

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.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.

No time is wasted time

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.