Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

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.

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.

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

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

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.

No time is wasted time