Best quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer on People

Checkout quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer on People

• ‟ I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

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• ‟ Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

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• ‟ We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.

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• ‟ If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise express, that offers a much more insightful analysis of why documentaries - even of the fly-on-the-wall variety - are powerful.

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

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• ‟ People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.

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