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Frank Oz quotes

Ocupation: Film director

Life: b. May 25, 1944

Birthday: May 25

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Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

Topics: Trying

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I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

source: - Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

Topics: Years, Nine, British

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.

Topics: Kids, Gay, Broadway, Broadway Musical

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

Topics: Want, Directors, Theater

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

source: - "EXCLUSIVE: Frank Oz Works His Magic with Death at a Funeral". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 4, 2008.

Topics: Drama, Dark, People, Deep Dark

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

source: - "EXCLUSIVE: Frank Oz Works His Magic with Death at a Funeral". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 4, 2008.

Topics: Crazy, Years, Done

I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something.

source: - Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

Topics: People, Parent, Looks

I'm always amused that people zero in on one thing, and it's the wrong thing to zero in on, but nevertheless, the reason they do that is because the voice is what they know - the voice represents everything about the character, that's why.

source: - Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

Topics: Zero, Character, Voice

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.

source: - Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

Topics: Drama, Different, Done, Bops

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

source: - Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

Topics: First Impression, Firsts, Unfair

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

source: - Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

Topics: Heart, Character, Locks

Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.

source: - Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

Topics: Differences, Touching, Who Cares

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

source: - "EXCLUSIVE: Frank Oz Works His Magic with Death at a Funeral". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 4, 2008.

Topics: President, Want, United States

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.

Topics: Book, Adventure, Pages

I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im 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.

Topics: Kids, Gay, Vitality, Cuban Music, Broadway Musical

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

Topics: Should

Impossible to see, the future is.

Topics: Decision, Impossible, Decision Making

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

source: - "Fictional character: Yoda". "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back", www.imdb.com. 1980.

Topics: Defense, Use, Force, Jedi Knights, Strike Back

When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our ***** off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit -- I do nothing.

source: - Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

Topics: People, Three, Credit

In a stage play, you kill the leads and they come out for a bow - in a movie, they don't come out for a bow, they're dead.

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in a white room and look at the movie for the rest of your life - it's ridiculous.

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Ridiculous, Audience

If I'm intimidated, I shouldn't be directing a movie. I gotta treat 'em as characters, not as stars. It's hard to not treat Marlon Brando as a legend, a star, it's difficult not to treat Robert De Niro as a star, but that had to go away very fast after I knew them, because I had to work with them. I'm the director, I'm the boss. They're looking to me for guidance.

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Character, Boss, Going Away, De Niro

I'm most proud of my kids, for one, and my family and my parents. Outside of that - what am I proud of? I don't know. I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something. And I'm doing some very decent work.

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Kids, People, Parent

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up. I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don't know what a British sensibility is. I'd like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Sense Of Humor, Moved, Sensibility

I don't like to have these words banded about, like "British sense of humor," "American sense of humor," though I'll be damned if I know what they are.

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Sense Of Humor

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