"Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy."

-- Michael Shermer

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“I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.”

Source : " ‘The Act of Killing’ Director on Dreams, Recognition and Impact" by Joshua Oppenheimer, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2014.
“Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.”
“Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like "Can you read at this thing?" And I say, "Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York."”
“It's like walking through someone's small intestine.”
“I am a slave to fashion. I love to get into what's hot and current when I dress myself or somebody else. Usually, it's someone else because I'm constantly working on finding the best looks for actors.”
“Ask anyone who makes a full-length movie that's shown in the art world if they'd rather have a career as a film director or as an artist. Invariably, they'd rather be known as a film director, because that's what they are. But there's not really a system of independent distribution anymore that allows for that, and so the art world has kind of become all-enveloping. It's absorbed all of these disciplines that don't have a home anymore.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.”
“My interest in time emerged out of an engagement with the media that I was working with. Film and performance are temporal media. They rely on time. When I'm carrying out a performance, it matters, for example, how long I hold one particular gesture or posture. Seriality is very important too. Performance can be used to dilate time or to repeat time. And video, in turn, has its own time.”

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