Puppetry Quotes

I really began to appreciate puppetry [while doing Sam and Friends]. (Jim Henson)
I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.
Nina Conti
The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.
William Jackson
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
Jim Henson
The appeal of puppetry to me is it's much more freeing for an artist.
Julie Taymor
We have a ways to go in understanding the power of puppetry.
Julie Taymor
The artist has the possibility to create a much larger landscape with puppetry. The human becomes more human in that sense.
Julie Taymor
[D]o not expect Americans to believe that freedom of speech is some disguised puppetry of the powerful. It is, to the contrary, an indispensable ingredient in the recipe for preventing tyrannies, be they of the left or right, be they in the name of the Fatherland, the Volk, or the workers. To say otherwise is merely to perform what Michael Polanyi called a "moral inversion”-an intellectual juggling act in which we are asked, in Orwellian terms, to regard freedom as slavery, discrimination as nondiscrimination, and truth as power.
Allen C. Guelzo
Indeed, Henson understood that to truly reach another person, you must aim beyond the intellect, at the heart-at the unguarded, joyful corner of the soul known as the inner child, which, incidentally, is where Jesus was especially focused. Puppetry and humor were Henson's tools for penetrating adult defenses.
Jim Henson
We have a ways to go in understanding the power of puppetry ... Our problem is for too long we have thought of puppets being for children. ... The appeal of puppetry to me is it's much more freeing for an artist ... Puppetry is a completely controllable means to attack your characters in every possible way. The artist has the possibility to create a much larger landscape with puppetry. The human becomes more human in that sense. Another of the great things about puppetry is the ability to transform.
Julie Taymor