Directing Puppetry Quotes by Brian Henson

So that's the challenge, you have a big technical aspect of what you're doing whilst you're creatively trying to improvise.

— Brian Henson

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

— Brian Henson

We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and…

— 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…

— Brian Henson

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…

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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…

— Brian Henson

There was a producer from the Aspen Comedy Festival who happened to be there, as a friend of a friend, and she said, "I'd…

— Brian Henson

We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot…

— Brian Henson

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…

— Brian Henson

"Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as…

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I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to…

— Brian Henson

I'd say that that is a challenge, but it also is, again, it's helpful. It's helpful to have the discipline of, okay, I'm doing,…

— Brian Henson