Best quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer on Reality

Checkout quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer on Reality

  • I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema; they're, in fact, ontological opposites. In Direct Cinema, we create a fictional reality with characters and pretend we're not that.
    - Joshua Oppenheimer
  • I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.
    - Joshua Oppenheimer
  • In terms of so-called fly-on-the-wall documentaries, there's a claim that the camera is a transparent window into a pre-existing reality. What really is happening is that the film crew and the subjects are collaborating to simulate a reality in which they pretend the camera is not present.
    - Joshua Oppenheimer
  • What I've always been most interested in is exposing the way stories and fantasies reconstitute our everyday reality. What appears to be non-fiction is not only totally mysterious, unfathomable, and strange when you really look at what it is.
    - Joshua Oppenheimer
  • I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
    - Joshua Oppenheimer
  • I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.
    - Joshua Oppenheimer