What I don't know for sure is what's next for me - and I don't mind that. I know for sure that whatever happens will be interesting and will challenge and excite me.

People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

In America, the word art has become like the word adultery. It's this big scarlet letter. When you say you're an artist, people are like, "Ugh."

I call myself a playmaker sometimes - but that's just a word. I don't feel like I have to have a title or a job description.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.