“I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.” BelievePastEssentialsUnspeakable Author:Joshua Oppenheimer
“I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction. 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. I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealityFilmI BelievePowerfulVarietyAcknowledgeFilmmakerInsightful Author:Joshua Oppenheimer
“I don't believe you can make an honest film about another person in all their complexities from a place of distance. You can make a journalistic report, you can judge someone from a distance, but you can't really get to know them.” BelieveFilmHonestJudgingDistanceComplexity Author:Joshua Oppenheimer
