A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.
We lie to ourselves and try to escape that bitter reality by saying that the world is divided into good guys and bad guys, and that we're the good gu… - Joshua Oppenheimer
We lie to ourselves and try to escape that bitter reality by saying that the world is divided into good guys and bad guys, and that we're the good gu…
- Joshua Oppenheimer
I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible - from the rea… - Joshua Oppenheimer
I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible - from the rea…
I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions. - Joshua Oppenheimer
I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.
The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country. - Joshua Oppenheimer
The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.
I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker. - Joshua Oppenheimer
I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the … - Joshua Oppenheimer
The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the …
Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course accept those invitations … - Joshua Oppenheimer
Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course accept those invitations …
I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe … - Joshua Oppenheimer
I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe …
In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in the world because… - Joshua Oppenheimer
In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in the world because…
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