"In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in the world because of the movie we're watching that is real. That has enormous stakes for the whole society, and we, by the act of watching, complete the story."

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Source : Source: www.esquire.com

Joshua Oppenheimer

#Real Quotes #Drama Quotes #World Quotes

“Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.”
“It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”
“That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty”
“I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate â€˜act,â€™ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names”

Source : Judith Butler (2014). “Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"”, p.2, Routledge
“A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
“Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.”
“The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.”

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