If You Ever Got Me,

I Spend A Lot Of Time In Preproduction Working With Authors, And A Lot Of Time In Postproduction.: Editing, Music, All That Sort Of Stuff. Casting. On The Set There's Not A Lot For Me To Do.

I Graduated From College In 1980.

We Try To Organize The World, Which Isn't Organized The Way Our Brains Want To Organize It. We Tell Stories About The People In Our Lives, We Project Ideas Onto Them. We Project Relationships With People, We Make Our Lives Into Stories. I Don't Think We Can Avoid Doing That.

You Get A Kind Of Surreal Feeling And Also It Allows You To Focus On The Things We Want You To Focus On In A New Way - The Stuff That's Very Small And Mundane That Happens In A Person's Life When They're In A Hotel Room. There's More Interest Because You're Seeing A Puppet Do Things That You're Very Familiar With That You Might Not Notice If It Was A Human Doing It.

People Will Say Things After A Screening That It Affects Them In A Certain Way, Which Is Why I Don't Like To Explain What Certain Things Are About. I Want Them To Have That. It Limits People's Ability To Understand Something If I Say It's "about This." That's Happened To Us A Bunch On This.