There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.
Joshua OppenheimerDirect cinema is about simulating a reality in which you're not having the overwhelming influence that you really are having.
Joshua OppenheimerI always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.
Joshua OppenheimerThe whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.
Joshua Oppenheimer