We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we woul….

I was already sort of mixing my science physics enthusiasm with entertainment and directing and puppetry..

I guess I learned a couple of good lessons from my dad. One was when you're creating something, what you want when you're working with a team of othe….

I always very much enjoyed arts and it was so central in my family, my mother was also an art teacher, as well as founding the Henson Company with my….

But curriculum-wise, I was drawn to the sciences and specifically to physics, and I really enjoyed it and I think for a little while there, I was rea….

The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open ….

Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film.

This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy..

And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make sure that we hold onto the vision and kind of corral ….

We're also irreverent, we have an irreverent attitude towards puppets, as well. So a lot of what we do is we're kind of making fun of the puppets for….

Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of the writing of the character, th….

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're….

The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Batter….

It's really great to do one piece, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," my dad developed in 1956, when he was 20 years old, and it's great to do tha….

So it's Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," which i….

The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have m….

But if everybody's trying to stay safe, then you never really create something new and different and surprising..

It was actually what my dad did and with the Muppets, the years with the Muppets, it was really all targeted to adults. It was in a time when everyth….

Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my dad was doing..

Patrick thought we should try to put an audience in front of one of the workshops, basically in front of the class and see how the performers rose to….

We wanted to premiere it in New York, because New York is sort of the home of the Jim Henson Company and it's sort of the tone and flavor, always, of….