Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

I think Americans are aware that they are involved in all sorts of violence around the world. They normally don't want to look at that.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 23, 1974

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I was probably the only 10-year-old who adored Sandy Dennis.

Joe Mantello

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Take any movie with an actor you like. Turn your head and just listen to the performance. In some cases, the physical presence remains as strong when you can't see the actor, when it's just the voice.

John Lasseter

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I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

Jeff Ament

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I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning to find myself boxed into a corner. Hopefully things have loosed up a bit, and I've gotten better and become more relaxed as an actor.

Rufus Sewell

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Playing a superhero was an acting challenge for me. It was fun.

Masi Oka

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I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.

Louis Theroux

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She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

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Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Josh Billings

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I use a little brush only for really small details. Over the years, I've started to use a much larger brush.

Anthony Browne

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I want to be a dominant pass rusher. I think I can do that with my body type and my work ethic.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

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I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's why I like the naturalistic performances and strange rhythms and the way that people genuinely interact captured rather than sort of very mannered performances.

Alice Lowe

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A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.

Phylicia Rashad

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