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.
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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.
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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.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.
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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.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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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.
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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.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.
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In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
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Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights.
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Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.
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A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.
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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.
