Quotes by Brian Henson

Brian Henson

A puppet that starts to improvise badly is almost funnier than the puppet that’s improvising well. So the show gets better when the improvising is really good, but also the show can also sometimes get better when the improvising sort of goes a little wrong and that’s sort of a blessing to improvising with puppets.

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And my dad’s answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also, he said, “No, it would be impossible for me to imagine the way it will come out.” He said, “Yes, I story-boarded it, I had a plan, but then I work with an army of great artists and I want all of them to create inside that creation.”

Army

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Dad

And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they’d keep their hands in the puppets, they’d stay in character, and then they’d start goofing around with each other and be off of script, and it would get quite blue.

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Cutting

And that was always my father’s favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.

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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 school, I only went to less than one year of college, and then I was transferring, and then I delayed my transfer, and I did a movie, and then another movie, and then I never finished college.

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

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Safe

Trying

But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

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Puppets

Special

First of all, you’re improvising through a puppet, so you’re not always yourself: you’re a cow or you’re a pig or you’re an old woman, you know, whatever puppet you pick, or you’re a demon, you know, whatever you pick up, that’s what you get to be in the scene.

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he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it’s great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

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Puppets

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 dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.

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Quotes by Brian Henson

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And that was always my father’s favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.

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

But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

First of all, you’re improvising through a puppet, so you’re not always yourself: you’re a cow or you’re a pig or you’re an old woman, you know, whatever puppet you pick, or you’re a demon, you know, whatever you pick up, that’s what you get to be in the scene.

he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it’s great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

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 dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.

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