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Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

Joshua Oppenheimer

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

Tags: stand, look, find

For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most,...

Joshua Oppenheimer

For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most,...

Tags: night, me, fall

About Author
Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer (born September 23, 1974) is an American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014), Oppenheimer was a 1997 Marshall Scholar and a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur fellowship.

I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given t...

Joshua Oppenheimer

I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given t...

Tags: history, speak, people

Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

Tags: change, society, start

In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.

Joshua Oppenheimer

In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.

Tags: party, important, country

In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves th...

Joshua Oppenheimer

In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves th...

Tags: selfish, filmmaking

I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make somethi...

Joshua Oppenheimer

I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make somethi...

Tags: life, reality, looking

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

Tags: guilt, feeling, human

I'm sure it's one of the most frustrating aspects of human experience for all of us, that when we tell someone who's hurt us that they've hurt us, they tend to react with anger because they feel guilt...

Joshua Oppenheimer

I'm sure it's one of the most frustrating aspects of human experience for all of us, that when we tell someone who's hurt us that they've hurt us, they tend to react with anger because they feel guilt...

Tags: experience, hurt, know

I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enj...

Joshua Oppenheimer

I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enj...

Tags: shadow, problem, military