Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don't really think most people really understand what they've seen.

My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.

I love to entertain an audience.

Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.

What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

No actor wants to play to an empty house.

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

People want performers, personality and drama, and you got that in the .

I think athletes in general are actors. We perform in front of big crowds. People pay to come see you play. So, people come see you to basically act.

The audiences love to see me fight on screen.

Drama sells.

I always like to have some type of connection with the crowd.

Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.

I love working in theater because it's such a challenge to have the audience right there in front of you. If you mess up, you have to figure it out and keep going. There's no take two! I do hope to return to the stage someday. I really love to sing.

I like to perform in front of an audience.

I think if you ask the audience to like you, it's all over.

That was an interesting thing I learned I think the first time I did a late night show or something. It was like, "Oh, this is for the camera and a performance that you're giving to the people at home."

I think one of the things that is important, for me, though a lot of people would disagree with me, is that you be founded in theater so that you understand what an audience is, what kind of an animal it is and how to play with it. How to have fun with it, how to sympathize with it, all the things that an audience is. I don't think you're going to find that out unless you do theater.

As a game-show host, what I'm thinking and what I'm experiencing doesn't matter. My opinion doesn't matter. So there's a flattened reality to it. It's fun to do. But it's certainly not myself in totality - or even maybe a little bit.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.