If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.
I trained my son to be a puppeteer since he was a little boy.
I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.
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.
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.
I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.