No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

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.

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

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

Take what you got and fly with it.

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.

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