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...

Clear your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.

In the low-budget world, there is more pressure on speed but less pressure on the amount of money, meaning when you don’t have enough money, you have to shoot faster. When you do have a...

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

Down here, I am. Find a ladder, I must!

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

[But the digital effects have a flip side. After Yoda became CG,] I missed the interaction with actors, the physicality, … But . . . Yoda’s fights and floating on air would have been impossible...

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.

As far as food goes, I’m pretty easy. I love Japanese food. I love meatloaf and mashed potatoes. I love spaghetti. I’m easy.

Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.

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 listen to a lot of jazz and world music,...

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

There’s a side of him that’s extremely private, where he just wants to be by himself.

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

I do, yes, I do. Sick have I become. Old and weak. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?

but sweet.

Girls and sports. That was the interest, mainly. I never wanted to be a puppeteer.

Jim (Henson) should have ****in’ fired me several times…

He’s the one who knew the characters better than anyone else; he brought the heart to the characters.

Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.

He was the person responsible really for the heart of the Muppets,

Beware of the dark side.

Nobody else could do that kind of writing?. He was the Muppet writer.

Early must I rise. Leave now you must!

I looked up to him because I was just a kid and this guy was actually doing the real work,

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

I’ll just wait for a phone call from George and go on with my life until that happens,