British - Director | September 23, 1974 -
I think fundamentally, I had to make a decision really on whether this was a film about the past or the present. And 'The Act Of Killing' is a film about the present.
Joshua Oppenheimer
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At our production company, the trademark dish - and this sounds particularly revolting - is curried pickled herring.
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I think Americans are aware that they are involved in all sorts of violence around the world. They normally don't want to look at that.
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You finish a film not in the editing, but in the conversations that audiences have with themselves - and in that sense, every viewer is making a slightly different film. And that's wonderful.
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I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the reality that is most insightful to the issues at hand. Here are human beings, like us, boasting about atrocities that should be unimaginable.
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Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.
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If we don't accept the uncomfortable proposition that every perpetrator of virtually every act of evil in our history has been a human being like us, then we actually foreclose the possibility of understanding how we do this to one another and therefore make it impossible to figure out how we might prevent these things.
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You cry the first tear because something is genuinely, singularly upsetting. And you cry the second tear because everybody is crying that first tear with you, and you know that.
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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.
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What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.
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Like all art, nonfiction film should invite, seduce, or force us to confront the most difficult, frightening or mysterious aspects of what it means to be human.
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For a long time, the Indonesian government ignored 'The Act of Killing,' hoping it would go away.
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