78 Quotes by Joshua Oppenheimer

People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most, that keep me up at night, and that, when I finally fall asleep, insinuate themselves into my dreams.

We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it.