I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

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.

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.