"There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like."

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Source : "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#Past Quotes #Might Quotes #Documentaries Quotes

“What's success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No, money for the most part turns people into jerks.”
“I have no problem with it. I don't look on homosexuality as an aberration. It's just they way they're born, and how could any relationship between two people in a committed relationship be wrong, regardless of gender?”
“A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.”
“Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.”
“An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.”
“My favorite color right now is purple, but it used to be pink. It's kind of always going to be pink.”

Source : Source: www.seventeen.com
“If you enjoy shaming people, I suggest dentistry as a profession.”
“We have to keep transforming ourselves to stay relevant for the future.”

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