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.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham
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.
Damon Lindelof
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.
Rain
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.
Ramakrishna
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.
Dane Cook
Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.
Margaret Cho
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.
Marilynne Robinson
Everybody is really contributing. When that's going on, it's a lot of fun.
Craig Biggio
In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
Barack Obama
Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?
Jeff Gannon
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.
Joshua Oppenheimer