Top 18 Frank Oz Quotes

There’s a few movies I wanted to do, and I didn’t get to do them partly because they wanted me to be part of the horse and pony show, getting the money, and I’m just not doing that. There’s a few movies that people wanted me to do, but they were too safe.

I look back on my work and I think, ‘Oh, why didn’t I do that differently?’

I’ve always wanted to do non-comedies. I’ve always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

The power of the ‘Muppets,’ and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people’s lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately… Privately, hell, I’m with them for life, and I love these people. They’re my second family.

I’ve rewritten a lot of the scripts I’ve done. ‘Little Shop Of Horrors‘ was a complete rewrite, but I didn’t touch the dialogue. Essentially, I’m a very good editor.

I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I was eleven years old to 18 to make extra money to go to Europe, which I made half of and my parents gave me half.

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

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as a hobby. I wanted to be a journalist. When I was 19, and after I had spent about a year in college, Jim Henson asked me to come out and try puppeteering for awhile.

I wouldn’t like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn’t feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.

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

I’m not politically committed at all in the popular sense; that is, to any party. I’m committed to whatever‘s best for the normal working person. I’m not a great fan of politics.

I don’t buy diamonds, I don’t buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I’m not a very possessive person as far as things go.

Well, Hollywood isn’t made up of individual studio heads anymore. It’s made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don’t want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

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

I love ‘Time Bandits;’ it’s great.

Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.