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.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

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.

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.

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