"My challenge was working with puppets, but their challenge was working with Louis Leterrier. I was non-compromising, "this will not look like your grandfather's puppet show, and this will look like The Dark Crystal, that broke the mould then, so let's break it again and bring puppetry as far as it can get", and that's really what we did."
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As quoted on Abigail Chandler, "You Absolute Muppet", SciFiNow, 161, 2019: 18-25
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