27 quotes
The first thing I do when I’m creating, either for stage or for cinema, is to find the ideograph of the story.
I can't design a mask and say to someone else, "Just do it."
I really, really love to have people honestly be moved and inspired.
Academy of Achievement interview (2006)
The artist has the possibility to create a much larger landscape with puppetry. The human becomes more human in that sense.
The concrete world isn't necessarily the most powerful world. The world of the mind … has the power to do a lot of good and a lot of damage.
I put myself into situations where I'm forced to do something, to create, to respond, to see differently.
Academy of Achievement interview (2006)
I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn’t resist.
She painted what she painted because she had to, because she was passionate about it.
Bill Moyers interview (2002)
Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.
I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. … I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.
I would never do something with just puppets. . . But I like the things puppets allow you to do.
It allows human beings to step out of their lives and to revisit it and maybe find something different about it.
Bill Moyers interview (2002)
I find that I make as an artist the kind of choices that I have to be impassioned about.
Bill Moyers interview (2002)
We always write stories of tragedies because that's how we reach our human depth. How we get to the other side of it.
Bill Moyers interview (2002)
Joy is deeper than sorrow, for all joy seeks eternity.
Academy of Achievement interview (2006)
It was a puppet with a puppet.
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
Academy of Achievement interview (2006)
Why do we think that arts are leisure? Why isn't it arts and science or arts and the most important thing in your life?
Bill Moyers interview (2002)
In our culture, we think that happy and color is trivial, that black and darkness is deeper.
Academy of Achievement interview (2006)
I understood really the power of art to transform. I think transformation became the main word in my life.
Bill Moyers interview (2002)