I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.

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

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

It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.

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.

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.