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.

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.

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.

The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.

Watch out for the icy patch

Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.