Character Quote by Travis Knight

First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for…

— Wayne White

Puppets can get away with saying things that human beings can't. Because they are cartoonish just to look at, they're not real, you can…

— Paul F. Tompkins

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

— James Bobin

Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like…

— Wayne White

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

— John Pinette

The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way…

— Wes Anderson

Puppets and dolls are the gateways between human beings and objects. There are tons of cliches to spout about puppetry and animism, the primacy…

— Kalan Sherrard

Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn't normally get expressed. You know there's famous techniques of puppet therapists. Put…

— Wayne White

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

— Helena Bonham Carter

There's a whole language to movement and how you embody someone, and how you can use different techniques for different characters. I guess just…

— Mia Wasikowska

With humans you would say, "Don't stand over there." and that would probably work. With puppets, you can't stand over there because you would…

— James Bobin

I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but…

— Robert Lopez