I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.
The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.
Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.
If you can't beat them. Join them
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.