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

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….

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 al….

When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 peo….

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….

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, wi….

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..

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

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..

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

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'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 ….

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 sensi….

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 wo….

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 ….

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. I'm looking….

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….

Impossible to see, the future is..

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 fo….

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 movi….