Simple is good.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.