Offenbach Quotes

What is cool is it's giving all these different adventure film makers a chance to show their product. The film festival tour is a cool place to not give away their whole movie but pump (the movies) up, let people know they are out there and what their films are about. - Todd Offenbacher

We kept Offenbach's spirit... He did what we call shtick, and I kept that. - Garry Marshall

These are the exact films we showed during the film festival ... condensed. Attention deficit people should be able to stay for the whole program. - Todd Offenbacher

Placido said I should try different things... So we came up with the idea of introducing the character of Offenbach into the opera to explain things and move the action along. They told me I couldn't change the music, but I could add my own interpretation to the book. - Garry Marshall

If you look at Gilbert and Sullivan, they were played to be the English equivalents of Jacques Offenbach's operettas. They're full of gags, funny situations and parody, which was the typical humor of the time. - Vince Liotta