But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.
There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening,… - Brian Henson
There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place that the scene is happening,…
- Brian Henson
So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, f… - Brian Henson
So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, f…
At that point, I thought probably special effects, something like that, and indeed, the early days when I was working with my dad, after I left schoo… - Brian Henson
At that point, I thought probably special effects, something like that, and indeed, the early days when I was working with my dad, after I left schoo…
In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, … - Brian Henson
In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, …
And if the audience is in a kind of naughty, raunchy mood, then they're going to make naughty, raunchy suggestions and then we take them and we do th… - Brian Henson
And if the audience is in a kind of naughty, raunchy mood, then they're going to make naughty, raunchy suggestions and then we take them and we do th…
You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out. - Brian Henson
You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.
I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director. - Brian Henson
I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.
Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film - Brian Henson
Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film
And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill. - Brian Henson
And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.
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