Top 78 Quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer

There are committed Indonesian filmmakers who are committed supporters of 'The Act Of Killing.'

Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.

I'm against escapist entertainment.

Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.

I think we are fascinated and scared by evil at the same time. I think it's important not to suppress our fascination but to walk into it with open eyes.

For my part, as a filmmaker, I've never been a fly-on-the-wall documentarian. I have no commitment to that method. I believe it's a lie.

I wanted to resist in 'The Look of Silence' making a film that ends with any kind of positive hope I feel in human rights documentaries dealing with human survivors.

I came across the Indonesian genocide in 2001, when I found myself making a film in a community of survivors. They were plantation workers, and it turned out they were struggling to organize a union.

The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.

I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.