"Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?"

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Source : "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#Thinking Quotes #Spectators Quotes #Audience Quotes

“I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.”

Source : Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”
“The European powers had been anxious to see the United States become embroiled in a civil war and eventually break into two smaller and weaker nations. That would pave the way for their further colonization of Latin American without fear of the Americans being able to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.”
“Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.”
“My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.”
“I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.”

Source : "Odette Yustman Interview, You Again". Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.
“All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.”
“I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half days so I'm going to party on”
“People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and I'm not really.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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