Believe Quote by Christopher Paul Curtis

I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm writing and…

— Scott Derrickson

I have to control my mouth - and that's hard enough - and then I have to manipulate the puppet and make it look…

— Darci Lynne Farmer

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

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

— Charles de Lint

You know, working with puppets - there is just something about it. Because the puppet takes on its own personality.

— John Pinette

I think that if you're somebody who's a control freak, the process would make you crazy, but I'm kind of a process freak, so…

— Alice Sebold

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that…

— Nina Conti

I can't control anything that happens after the creative process because after that it's not yours anymore, it's everyone else's.

— Rosalia

If I was a puppet then you'd be my master, to pull my strings forever after.

— Blessthefall

Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

— James Bobin

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're…

— Alice Sebold