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

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

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

You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.

- 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…

- Brian Henson

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

- 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.

- 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.

- Brian Henson