Frank Oz Quotes (19 Quotes)

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

I do, yes, I do. Sick have I become. Old and weak. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

He was the person responsible really for the heart of the Muppets,

Girls and sports. That was the interest, mainly. I never wanted to be a puppeteer.

Jim (Henson) should have in' fired me several times...

Nobody else could do that kind of writing. He was the Muppet writer.

Clear your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.

I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

I'll just wait for a phone call from George and go on with my life until that happens,

But the digital effects have a flip side. After Yoda became CG, I missed the interaction with actors, the physicality, ... But . . . Yoda's fights and floating on air would have been impossible with a puppet. And since so many new characters were digital, a puppet among them would have been jarring.

The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented.

He's the one who knew the characters better than anyone else he brought the heart to the characters.

Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.

In the low-budget world, there is more pressure on speed but less pressure on the amount of money, meaning when you don't have enough money, you have to shoot faster. When you do have a lot of money, you don't have to shoot as fast, but the pressure is being responsible for the tremendous amount of money at your disposal.

I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I've got to do that sometime.