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'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 ….

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..

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

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….

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

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….

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 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 g….

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

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

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….

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 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 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 thr….

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

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..

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….

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….

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….

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 ar….