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Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: british
Birth: September 23, 1974

Topics

Work Silence Space Look More Open

I'm a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself.

Writing Important Act Writer Than

I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.

Children Eyes Hate People End Kind

The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.

World Rest Process Prejudice Racial

I think there's a lot of Democrats that would favor reducing the corporate tax rate as long as we find a way to close loopholes so we have a way to pay for it.

Think Long Find Tax Way Pay

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

Music You Touch More Gut Modern

What I see in Scripture are the priorities: My wife was beautiful to me, and she loved God, and we got along well. When I look in Scripture for what I want in a wife, here she is, right here.

God Beautiful Wife Me Loved Look

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

Character My Own Own Working Been

When I started not training as hard and doing what I needed to do, everyone else improved without me improving.

Training Me Doing Hard Improving

I don't understand people who just live to exist, live to be OK. Live to be regular, live to be average. It doesn't make any sense to me. I live to be the best. I don't live to be good. You only get one life, and I live to be great. I live to be special.

Life Good Live Great Best People

I just don't fit into the box.

I make mistakes - I have made a lot of mistakes - but I am a good person, and I will persevere.

Good Mistakes I Am Good Person Will

I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the orchestra, and when you're an actor, you're playing the violin. There's a thrill to each of them, but as the conductor, you get the fuller sound.

You Actor Sound Violin Director

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