Puppeteer Quotes

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

  Jim Henson

  Life, Motivational, Believe

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• Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.

  Jim Henson

  Soul, Quality, Essentials

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• I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

  Grant Morrison

  Evil, Wicked, Behind The Scenes

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  The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

  Jim Henson

  Inspirational, Children, People

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.52, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Trying, Peculiar

  "The Moral Animal". Book by Robert Wright, www.wired.com. 1994.

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  When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

  Jim Henson

  Ambition, Differences, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

  Jim Henson

  Competition, Style

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• Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

  David Cronenberg

  Thinking, Kind, Strings

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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• In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.

  Katherine Catmull

  Artist, Dancer, Bird

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• I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

  Julie Taymor

  Writing, Design, Dancer

  "Theatre Director Probes Humanism". Christopher Reardon, The Christian Science Monitor, November 13, 1992.

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• he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

  Brian Henson

  Fun, Puppets, Comedy

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

  Joe Grant

  Inspiration, Expression, Ease

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• Basically we're puppeteers and if you're there and you're in the character, the puppet is going to look good. It's going to breath life and I think once they find out how to trust this system, you just forget about it and just perform, then it's just second nature, it just becomes easy.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Thinking, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that—in many realms, not just sex—we’re all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.

  Robert Wright

  Sex, Understanding, Trying

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.48, Vintage

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• Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on. Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Blood, Color, Focus

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• Sasori, your strength came because of your soul, not in spite of it... You were supposed to be a a top-class ninja puppeteer, not a worthless nobody who lets someone else pull the strings. - Kankurou (Naruto Ch 518)

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Class, Soul, Ninja

  "Fictional character: Kankuro". "Naruto: Shippūden", 2007-2017.

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• It just happens that there is more employment for puppeteers in preschool television than anywhere else.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  Employment, Television, Preschool

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

  Brian Henson

  Style, Trying, Cameras

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

  Jim Henson

  Thinking, Style, Together

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• I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Thinking, Space

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• The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Real, Writing

  Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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• I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry.

  Wayne White

  Attitude, Worst Person, Giving

  "That's what art really tries to do. Just strip away all the pretense and it's trying to entertain and excite". Interview with Julie Thomson, logger.believermag.com. October 9, 2013.

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• "Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.

  Brian Henson

  Class, Littles, Scripts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the sets where my dad was shooting with the other puppeteers.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Kids, Shooting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

  Tom Lehrer

  Want

  "Stop clapping, this is serious". Sydney Morning Herald interview, www.smh.com.au. March 1, 2003.

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