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 nature of evil itself. — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like. — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker. — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think we create our world through stories. We use storytelling to escape or protect ourselves from the unimaginable and the horrible - from… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling. — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
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… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable. — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Films can't change the society, they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave. — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course accept those… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience? — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I've become more forgiving, even though I have no patience at all for denial, justification of wrong, rationalization. I've become virtually a pacifist, so… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
