Latest Brian Henson Quotes from Interviews

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

  Brian Henson

  Trying, Different, Safe

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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, the voicing of the character, the personality of the character, and what the character looks like.

  Brian Henson

  Writing, Character, Personality

  Source: bigthink.com

• I think in a creative effort, in any creative effort, you need to, people need to be able to be taking risks and if it turns out to be a mistake, if it turns out not to have been the right choice, that should be applauded, you know, by everybody, and it will come up with another plan.

  Brian Henson

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Source: bigthink.com

• I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.

  Brian Henson

  Mistake, People, Trying

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• 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 it, but by the time you finish whatever the project is, a TV show, a series, a movie, a stage show, it should be a product of what all those people can do, and therefore, it can never be what you imagined it would be in the beginning.

  Brian Henson

  Tv Shows, People, Leader

  Source: bigthink.com

• And it should be something that only that group of people could've made with everybody invested.

  Brian Henson

  People, Groups, Made

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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."

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Army, Artist

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 other artists, is everybody to work with some creative freedom, so that you really get the best out of everybody.

  Brian Henson

  Couple, Dad, Team

  Source: bigthink.com

• People would say to him, "When you finish a movie, did it come out as good as you thought it was going to?" Or, "Did it come out the way you intended it to come out?"

  Brian Henson

  People, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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

  Sight, Directors, Ends

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Riding, London

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Brian Henson

  Mixing, Enthusiasm, Entertainment

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, School, College

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Special, Puppets

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• 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 really thinking my schooling would be in physics, that that was something I loved.

  Brian Henson

  Wise, Thinking, Would Be

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

  Brian Henson

  Film

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• And then while she's lip-syncing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," to this little head next to her, the head eats the cloth fabric and swallows it and it's sort of this weird, demonic character there, who then tries to eat the singer. But it's a lot of fun. So there's a couple of pieces like that.

  Brian Henson

  Couple, Fun, Character

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Brian Henson

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Source: bigthink.com

• My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

  Brian Henson

  Mom, Dad, Stories

  Source: bigthink.com

• So it's Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," which is, you know, really a love song, but what we see on stage is we see one puppet that's got a ridiculous blonde wig on and she looks ridiculous, and next to her is a head that's just a piece of fabric with a pretty face on it.

  Brian Henson

  Song, Singing, Blonde

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Character, Would Be

  Source: bigthink.com

• In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he had developed with my mother, one that Frank Oz had developed with my dad. And these are old pieces from the '50's and '60's, and we're going to develop more, too.

  Brian Henson

  Mother, Dad, Two

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 that piece again now and see that it still really works as well as it ever did.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Years, Pieces

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 being puppets, even while we're doing it. And again, that all feeds into the absurdity of this show.

  Brian Henson

  Fun, Attitude, Puppets

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Father, Shooting

  Source: bigthink.com