Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I'm good. I elevate myself. I call it the 'Star Wars morality'. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.

Joel Fuhrman

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I have had the opportunity to work with Andy Lincoln a lot. He's got a remarkable process. He just has these ways of sinking into the scene and into character that are very physical. He'll make these sounds and these grunts and these moans... I don't know what it is that he's channeling! It lets you know it's okay for you to do that, too.

Andrew J. West

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I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

Mekhi Phifer

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I can't say I love football anymore.

Ann McKee

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I definitely script things out. I definitely write things down and try to write jokes. Often, they're terrible. I often write terrible, terrible jokes.

Michael Ian Black

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Where film can eat up story, theatre needs space and breath.

John Tiffany

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The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Michael Lewis

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My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.

Jonathan Anderson

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I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

Brian Molko

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I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.

Sharlto Copley

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Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

Mark McKinnon

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I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

Lydia Davis

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