While you're testing out armatures of puppets, you're also     trying to find the proper visual vocabulary for the character     and to come up with a guidebook of sorts for how a character     will move and act.

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a     useful way of expressing myself

Once I'm on stage, there's just no time for a sip of water - I've     always got my hands in puppets! My voice is raw by the time I     finish.

Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated.     You're juggling ten balls instead of three.

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown     forces.