Frank Oz
Frank Oz
Frank Ozis an English-born American filmmaker, puppeteer, and actor. His career began as a puppeteer, where he performed the Muppet characters of Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear in The Muppet Show, and Cookie Monster, Bert, and Grover in Sesame Street. He is also known for being the puppeteer and voice of Yoda in the Star Wars films...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPuppeteer
Date of Birth25 May 1944
CityHereford, England
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.
There's a side of him that's extremely private, where he just wants to be by himself.
Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.
Nobody else could do that kind of writing?. He was the Muppet writer.
I looked up to him because I was just a kid and this guy was actually doing the real work,
Piggy is certainly hard, but that's just part of the job. I don't even think about it. She's also hard because I have to reach down into the feminine part of myself and bring that up. It's not just the surface with her. There are a lot of neuroses in her. So I have to come from a different place with Piggy.
Girls and sports. That was the interest, mainly. I never wanted to be a puppeteer.
He was the person responsible really for the heart of the Muppets,
He's the one who knew the characters better than anyone else; he brought the heart to the characters.
Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.
First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.
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.