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.

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.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

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.

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.

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.