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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• 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.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Effort

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Different
  • True

• We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Quick

• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Equality
  • Disease

• 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.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
  • Hearts

• Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

  

  Zak Orth
  • People
  • Mind
  • High

• 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.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Peace

• 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
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Old Age

• 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
  • Work
  • Real
  • Day

• He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.

  

  Rain
  • 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
  • God
  • Reality

• 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
  • Death
  • Star

• Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Weird

• I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Black
  • Law

• There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Important
  • Today

• I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.

  

  Eleanor Catton

• In Cleveland, music was always a big part of my life. That's really where I cut my teeth.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Life
  • Music

• You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Life
  • Different
  • Person

• Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Reality
  • Perception

• Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns.

  

  Jonathan Haidt
  • Reality
  • Team

• I had a good run here, fifteen years. That's a great run. I'm not saying that I'm done in center field - if I could play there forever, I would. But I know that's not reality, so I'm happy.

  

  Bernie Williams
  • Reality
  • Play
  • Years

• There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

  

  Dave Brubeck

• 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
  • Reality
  • Stories
  • Exposing