It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

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.

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

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.