I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'

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• Joshua Oppenheimer:

  I have a British and an American passport.

• Joshua Oppenheimer:

  I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history.

• Joshua Oppenheimer:

  At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying

• Joshua Oppenheimer:

  'The Look of Silence' is able to have a wide public release, although still not in cinemas. It's di

• Joshua Oppenheimer:

  Yes, it was difficult - making 'The Act of Killing' in particular was a very lonely process. No one

• Joshua Oppenheimer:

  I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people.

• Joshua Oppenheimer:

  I'm a big admirer of S21, and I really also like Rithy Panh's work in general.

• Joshua Oppenheimer:

  I think it's a great pity in the Anglophone world that we conflate cinema verite and Direct Cinema;

• Joshua Oppenheimer:

  I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in

• Joshua Oppenheimer:

  I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tri