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Joshua Oppenheimer
Joshua Oppenheimer
British Director
Born: Sep 23, 1974
About Act People Reality Think You
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I don't really want to leave anything in life behind. We have bad experiences, we have difficult experiences, but if you leave everything behind, you have no past. Joshua Oppenheimer
Life You Past Difficult Everything Bad Leave Behind Want Experiences Anything Really
You finish a film not in the editing, but in the conversations that audiences have with themselves - and in that sense, every viewer is making a slightly different film. And that's wonderful. Joshua Oppenheimer
You Editing Wonderful Sense Every Slightly Finish Making Audiences Different Conversations Themselves Viewer Film
I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the reality that is most insightful to the issues at hand. Here are human beings, like us, boasting about atrocities that should be unimaginable. Joshua Oppenheimer
Reality People Obligation World Think Our Insightful About Atrocities Investigating Like Most Issues Hand Human Human Beings Boasting Us Create Unimaginable Should Beings Here Filmmakers
Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law. Joshua Oppenheimer
Army Law Military Rule Above Remains Indonesia Ended
If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things. Joshua Oppenheimer
History Human Being Impossible Evil Understanding Every Virtually Our Possibility Out Has-Been Prevent Uncomfortable Proposition Like Make Accept Another How Perpetrator Been Human Being Might Then Us Act Figure Therefore Actually Things
You cry the first tear because something is genuinely, singularly upsetting. And you cry the second tear because everybody is crying that first tear with you, and you know that. Joshua Oppenheimer
You First Everybody Something Know Cry Crying Because Genuinely Upsetting Tear Second
What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition. Joshua Oppenheimer
Art Recognition About Something Powerful Makes Condition Encounter Familiar Frightening Human Flash Human Condition
Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity. Joshua Oppenheimer
Great Cinema Medium Course Modernity Storytelling
Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory. Joshua Oppenheimer
Memory Dream Above Waking Impressions Fever Any
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 enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity. Joshua Oppenheimer
Legal People Problem Military Think State Complete Run Immunity Shadow Part Thugs Look Forced Just Impunity Act Actually
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 the long-festering wound of our history around race. Joshua Oppenheimer
Failure History You People Speak Seen Move On Think Our States Ways Out Wound About Given Make Around Heard Trying Move Different Race Themselves United Different Ways United States
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