You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

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Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in...

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At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just...

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Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably...

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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made...

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

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

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

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When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television...

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Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a...

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Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of...

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If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number...

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

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At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in...

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I think my own strengths are in television production.

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NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to...

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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some...

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Adulthood is just childhood with more debt.

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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the...

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Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the...

Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped...

Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped...