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Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

At our production company, the trademark dish - and this sounds particularly revolting - is curried pickled herring.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Company Production Our Sounds Dish

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this thing, and I never really accepted this idea that I'm a film actor. That's what I do. I feel like I'm a theater actor that started doing films. Most people have never seen me in a play. They're fun, though.

Life Fun People Me My Life Doing

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man Famous Wood Him Because Stuff

I just have this very simple idea about the rebel spies in the opening crawl of A 'New Hope' who steal the plans for the Death Star.

Hope Simple Death Rebel New Plans

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

Poetry Writing You Living Poet Get

Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.

Work Day Creativity Words Me Brain

The question I wanted to answer was, could I train my mind to be happy the same way one trains one's body?

Stefan Sagmeister

Happy Mind Be Happy Body Train Way

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

Mind Brain Bag Single Genes Complex

With my coloring, I'm nothing in black and white. I've seen my films sometimes on black-and-white TV. Disaster.

Black And White Black White Sometimes

I feed horses and goats and sheep all day and, once in a while, come and talk about movies.

Day Sheep Movies Talk Goats Feed

The Muslim Brotherhood has decades of violent history covertly operating in the United States and is recognized by experts as having 100 times more active members than Al-Qaeda.

History Brotherhood More Active Than

I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.

Martin Seligman

Positive Happiness Think Bring Us

The quest for a quantum gravity is one of the greatest unsolved problems in all of science.

Science Problems Gravity Quantum

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