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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

- 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