"Brian Henson" is an American puppeteer, director, producer, and the chairman of The Jim Henson Company. The son of puppeteers Jim Henson/Jim and Jane Henson, Brian was born in New York City.

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I was very advanced in physics, so I thought that something in astrophysics was where I would go ? I was thinking about NASA and stuff like that.

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It wasn't harder for me to direct than it was for me to run the company, which wasn't necessarily what came naturally to me.

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What we're trying to do is entertain ourselves, and we are mostly a bunch of adults, but at a basic level that works for everybody.

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The reason he did 'Saturday Night Live' was because he was pissed off. He wanted everyone to know that Muppets aren't just for kids.

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In going forward, I really am doing much the same as my father did. He sort of had a grand scheme that wasn't too specific. Out projects were always innovative.

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We're used to releasing Muppet movies in the off-season, not on the on-season. We've always done well that way.

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Where we used to just look at the visitor as a whole, now we are breaking it down to families, youth groups, school groups, tourists, tour groups, ... A family is going to be reached differently from a school group.

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Lew Grade told my dad, 'I'll make your TV show. I know it's going to be a big hit,' ... The show had definitely not run its course when my dad decided to end the show. My dad just liked doing a lot of stuff. He was so full of stuff he wanted to do.

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