- William Plant: Technically, how it works you have, um, the puppeteer who has his controls, he's standing off camera, you have the actor who is inside the suit, and with the mechanical head on, and the um, puppeteers action - actions are transmitted by one of our special computers, um, to the- to the turtle head.
- Michael Pressman: One of the things that's great about the Turtles, one of the biggest achievements that occurred, in the first movie and the creation of these characters is you believe them. It's not that they're real. The kids know they're actors in suits and that the heads are remote-controlled. In fact, they're fascinated by it. But they believe them.
- Kenn Scott: If I was to talk to Raphael, I would say... "You gotta lighten up, dude. You gotta just chill out, go with the flow a little bit more. Believe in yourself."
- Peter Laird: One of the major appealing things about the Turtles for kids is that, um, they don't go out looking for trouble, and they want to be left alone to do their own thing. But when trouble comes, they can handle themselves. And I think that's really how most kids and most people, most adults, are. They don't want to have trouble, they don't want to, y'know, go out and be mean to people, but they want to be able to take care of themselves when somebody hassles them. And that's exactly what the Turtles can do.
- Leif Tilden: I'm a puppeteer also, but instead of using my hands, I'm using my whole body. The hardest part is the heat! And the weight. And, like the eighth hour into the day, um, y'know, how do I still seem light on my feet when, like, the whole costume has soaked up thirty pounds of my sweat?
- Pat Johnson: All of their ninja skills are relatively the same. In fighting, Michelangelo tends to have the most fun with his fighting. I mean, he's just having a ball. Donatello, who also has fun, but he does more things by mistake, where he hits people, y'know, by accident, he hits someone behind him when he really means to hit someone in front of him. Leonardo feels so superior to his adversaries that he's really taunting them and having fun that way. Raphael is really harassing them. His comedy is really more of harassment, to really drive them nuts.