KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer

Showing 21-30 of 78 Quotes by 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 something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

~Joshua Oppenheimer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.

~Joshua Oppenheimer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

~Joshua Oppenheimer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.

~Joshua Oppenheimer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.

~Joshua Oppenheimer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

~Joshua Oppenheimer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.

~Joshua Oppenheimer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.

~Joshua Oppenheimer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I still receive very regular death threats that make it impossible for me to return to Indonesia. I think I could get in, but I don't think I could get out again.

~Joshua Oppenheimer

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: September 23rd, 1974

Links

Find Joshua Oppenheimer on Amazon

Related Authors

John Grierson
Christopher Guest
David Lean
Christopher Nolan
Nick Park
Guy Ritchie
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott

Popular Authors

Jean-Michel Basquiat Jimmy Buffett George Washington Carver Christopher Columbus Heraclitus Immanuel Kant Taylor Swift Adam West

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt

1775 - Walter Savage Landor

1781 - Adelbert Von Chamisso

1846 - F. H. Bradley

1866 - Gelett Burgess

1909 - Saul Alinsky

1912 - Francis Schaeffer

1912 - Barbara Tuchman

1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman

1919 - Fred Korematsu

Birthdays on January 30th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Alone Diet Education Fitness Happiness Love Marriage Space