Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer) Quotes

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

Joshua Oppenheimer

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

W. H. Auden
- Time
- Happy
- Interesting
It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

Parker Posey
- Up
- Movies
- Building
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Lascelles Abercrombie
- Age
- Reason
- Poetry
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Abraham Lincoln
- Think
- Slavery
- Old
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

Sam Riley
- Wife
- Safe
- Germany
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

Os Guinness
- People
- American
- Today