Joshua Oppenheimer (Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer) Quotes
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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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.
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He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.
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The nearer you come to God, the less you are disposed to questioning and reasoning. When you actually attain Him, when you behold Him as the reality, then all noise, all disputations, come to an end.
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I invite her back to my apartment, or as I call it, the 'Death Star.' I'm still working on it, it's not completely operational.
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Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.
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I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.
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There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
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In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
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In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.
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For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show up in my studio in the clothes that they want to be wearing. And often times, those clothes would be the same trappings people would see on television and find menacing.
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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.
