"I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker."

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

Joshua Oppenheimer

#Forgiving Quotes #Said Quotes #Filmmaker Quotes

“There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.”
“Technology is usually fairly neutral. Itâ€™s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someoneâ€™s home. The hammer doesnâ€™t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.”
“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.”
“I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming American.”
“I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.”
“Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.”

Source : Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.144, Simon and Schuster
“It's never been my desire to conquer you, Amelia. If you leave this room with me, it must be at my side. As my wife, my lover, my partner ...â€ His thumb brushed her lip. â€œMy dearest friend.”
“It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.”

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