Frank Oz Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Frank Oz Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Frank Oz Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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.

Frank Oz

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.

Frank Oz

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

Frank Oz

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.

Frank Oz

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.

Frank Oz

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.

Frank Oz

I love ‘Time Bandits;’ it’s great.

Frank Oz

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.

Frank Oz

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.

Frank Oz

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

Frank Oz

I’m not an art director; I’m just not. I’ve always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

Frank Oz

Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.

Frank Oz

‘The Stepford Wives‘ was too big, and it was unsatisfying to do. Not that it was unsatisfying to do, but it was unsatisfying as a result because, as much as I loved parts of it, and I’m really proud of so much of it, the entire movie wasn’t what I wanted it to be. It’s my own fault; I didn’t follow my instincts.

Frank Oz

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.

Frank Oz

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.

Frank Oz

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

Frank Oz

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

Frank Oz

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.

Frank Oz