I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

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 do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.

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.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

It's a wonderful life and I love it.

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.