"We have a ways to go in understanding the power of puppetry … Our problem is for too long we have thought of puppets …"

"I would never do something with just puppets. . . But I like the things puppets allow you to do. I had this puppet Di…"

"I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors,…"

"The first thing I do when I’m creating, either for stage or for cinema, is to find the ideograph of the story. Which …"

"Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know …"

"To me, where theater has it all over film is that it’s in the moment, it’s tactile, you feel it …You’re completely im…"

"She painted what she painted because she had to, because she was passionate about it. She didn't care at all if peopl…"

"We always write stories of tragedies because that's how we reach our human depth. How we get to the other side of it.…"

"I understood really the power of art to transform. I think transformation became the main word in my life. Transforma…"

"I can't design a mask and say to someone else, "Just do it." It's partly because I'm a better sculptor than I am a dr…"