Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer) Quotes

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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• It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Up
  • Done
  • May

• I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Live
  • Promise
  • Performance

• Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Years
  • Playing
  • Bowler

• But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Place
  • Playing

• You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • You
  • Always
  • Performance

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Chance
  • Color
  • Performance

• It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Loved
  • Performance

• I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hero

• I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

  

  Orson Welles
  • World
  • Decision
  • Performance

• I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • History
  • Speak
  • Playing

• My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Career
  • Games
  • Playing

• I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • Ghost

• I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Playing
  • Started
  • Trumpet

• I would like people to know me for who I am, especially since I think people have a very skewed image of me. I was playing a lot of cute characters, a lot of little girls; I was objectified. And I don't want people to think of me as that because it's not who I am, and because I've seen a lot of hostility towards that image.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Playing
  • Cute
  • Image

• I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Night
  • Band
  • Listening

• Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Best
  • Self
  • Performance

• Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

  

  Harold Stephen Black
  • Performance
  • Feedback

• Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Crazy
  • Start
  • Performance

• In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Time
  • Family
  • Performance

• Y'know, it's funny: I didn't think I'd be playing 'Hold The Line' at 60 years old. I was 19 when I first played that.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Playing
  • Hold The Line

• In later years I never put aside this kind of inquiry, that is, into the modes of thinking and representation embedded in a text, but I asked new questions about ways of writing and the forms and rituals of discourse. I began to look not only at what was stated or declared in a text, but also at what was suggested through expression, through performance.

  

  Natalie Zemon Davis
  • Expression
  • Performance
  • Inquiry

• Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Reality
  • Know

• Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Positive
  • Yourself

• Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

  

  Joshua Oppenheimer
  • Playing
  • Performance
  • Documentaries