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.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

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.