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.

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

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

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.

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.