Steve Zissis Quotes

Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of puppets. There's a big puppet musical at the end of 'Sarah Marshall.' I wrote 'The Muppets.'

I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

I know that I want to consistently return to doing plays. That's one of the most important things because I think it's the best place for me to learn how to act.

I dabbled in puppetry throughout college and even had my own traveling puppet show after I graduated.

I was fascinated by puppets as a kid and one I had when I was eight or nine, a skeleton, is now hanging in my office.

I always wanted to be a Muppet.

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

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

You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets.

I come alive when I have assisted in bringing out the printed word on the stage, you know, and I enjoy directing plays. It's a tactile process, theatre, unlike a number of other forms of the creative work.

I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.

For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get directing jobs, and I fell into the acting by default. I got in the habit of accepting whatever came my way. Not things that I disagreed with, though. It's not like I had aspirations - well, I did have aspirations to play Hamlet, which I ended up doing.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.

I've always said I prefer theater, but there's only ever been one play that I really loved doing, and that was The Seagull.

The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both!

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country

If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You do something like use the wrong music, the tone's off, and everything feels off". And I was like, "I'm not going down with this one. I wrote it, but I don't like that play." Then I thought, "Well, no one's producing my stuff, letting me star in it, and direct it at these theaters, so I'll just do them in comedy clubs."

I'm a playwright. All I care about is the play being good.