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[00:00.43] As a puppeteer, I make puppets as well. I build my own puppets. I perform.

[00:04.68] If it's my own production, then I have to write the story.

[00:09.46] People love puppeteers. Whenever I tell people, people ask me, "What do you do?"

[00:16.37] I say, "I'm a puppeteer." And everybody's first reaction, "Oh."

[00:21.15] Puppetry is such a magical art form because it brings things to life just by moving it.

[00:40.81] And the reason why it's so magical, it not only depends on my own imagination, but it also depends on audience's imagination,

[00:53.02] because if I am moving these things and then as if this is moving by itself,

[01:00.99] but as the audience, I am using my imagination when I move it because I'm looking at you.

[01:08.17] I'm looking at myself, but the trick is the audience, they have to invest their own imagination.

[01:15.87] You have to buy it in order to make it reasonable, right, make it real. I think this imagination, the day when you were born, is in you.

[01:27.82] Everybody can imagine, like when you look at the clouds, "Oh, it's a bird. It's a butterfly." It's just a piece of cloud, but everybody has the imagination.

[01:38.71] But creatively, people forget about it because, you know, when you are growing up and people say, "This is just a pair of glasses, leave it there", you know, and for many different reasons.

[01:51.46] But puppetry really stirs up all your internal, you know, imagination, creativity.

[02:01.29] This comes out with simple movements, simple dialogue, simple music, sound, and then put it together.

[02:10.06] And right away, audience understands what you tried to tell them. So, it's fascinating. I'm still learning it. I'm still discovering new things every day.

[02:23.07] What can be better than you do something and people love it and pay you for it? That's the best.