Explorers Quote by Joshua Oppenheimer Download Open image “I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.” — Joshua Oppenheimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explorers Storyteller Writing
I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery. — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
To be a true explorer is to carry on your exploration even if it takes you to a place you didn't particularly plan to… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn’t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times… — John Goddard Copy Share
I want us to all look at ourselves and look at our stories. It doesn't matter where you come from or what journeys you've… — Diane Guerrero 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 the real, in a way. It's like white light - if you put everyday reality through a prism you get this rainbow of colors that you couldn't see before. I'm interested in exploring the world to… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share
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
I want MIT to be the dream of every child who wants to grow up to make the world a better place. We need… — Susan Hockfield Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged the adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands. Riding through the air on silver wings instead of sailing the seas with white wings, he must steer his own course, for the… — Jean Batten Copy Share
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up:… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn’t imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times… — John Goddard Copy Share
The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision, the better; the more elements he can grasp and hold in his mind at once, the better. The economic world is a misty region. The first explorers used unaided vision. Mathematics is the lantern by… — Irving Fisher Copy Share
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe. — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to earth for more than two and a half years. The difficulties of a trip to mars are formidable. . . . What curious information will these first explorers carry back from Mars? Nobody knows-and its… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pioneer, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share
Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
