“When you approach someone as a human being, truly and try to be as open as safety allows, some of the bigger reenactments with a whole army of paramilitary people participating, I couldn't say my feelings openly in front of everybody, without it being dangerous for my crew.” PeopleTryingHumansWholeFeelingsHuman BeingsDangerousFrontsApproachBiggerArmySafetyCrewParticipating Author:Joshua Oppenheimer
“I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.” TryingYearsHumansSometimesDoneActionLyingHumanityHuman BeingsLevelsMoralPracticeBehaviorEmpathyConsequenceAspectJustifyRecognizingImmoral Author:Joshua Oppenheimer
“We lie to ourselves and try to escape that bitter reality by saying that the world is divided into good guys and bad guys, and that we're the good guys. We condemn people as evil to reassure us that we're not like them. If there's to be any hope of preventing these things from happening again, we have to look at the reality. That any act of evil in our history was committed by human beings like us. That, very often, we're all implicated in it.” PeopleWorldTryingRealityLyingGuyEvilCommittedBitterGood Guy Author:Joshua Oppenheimer
