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. Joshua Oppenheimer
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  2. I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.
  3. Films can't change the society they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.
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  5. All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.
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