“Pretty much everyone has a short attention span. And of course, you saw ‘Being John Malkovich’. Well you know, when he goes into his agent and he says, ‘I want to be a puppeteer now.’ And the agent says, ‘Okay. Let’s see how we can work that out.’
So if you have achieved any level of success, it’s easier for you to say, ‘I want to do a complete switch; I want to be a totally different person.’ And you know, people are going to be more accomodating. So I hope to reach that level of success where I could become a puppeteer.
— Nellie McKay on The Sound of Young America
