Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes
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What I've always been most interested in is exposing the way stories and fantasies reconstitute our everyday reality. What appears to be non-fiction is not only totally mysterious, unfathomable, and strange when you really look at what it is.
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Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
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We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.
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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.
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No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.
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We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.
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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.
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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.
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The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.
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I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.