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.

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 was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

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

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.