Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.

If I'm in America, I'm safe. I feel very safe. But if I step outside of America, it will be a very dangerous situation.

As a writer, being on the set of 'Gravity' was such a surreal experience. It was nice to see them using the technology to translate what we had on the page.

The experience of shooting 'Encounter' itself was very exciting and challenging.

I had sittings with Akshay Kumar during 'Airlift.' People who are passionate about music get involved in the making of the songs. I used to have a good interaction with him.

I wanted to make a movie once at Lake of the Woods, where my parents had a cabin, which I now have. We actually planned, we wrote a whole screenplay about a kind of Indian spiritual group that was at Lake of the Woods. We weren't calling it that but it was Lake of the Woods. We wrote a whole screenplay about it but we couldn't get funding for it.

Maayanadhi' was a film I enjoyed working in.

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

I always enjoy shooting for all my films.

I love movies and I'm interested in watching how they're made and everything.

As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.

I have always wanted to make a movie, in fact I always wanted to direct someday. But I never thought I would be a producer.

Filmmaking is a very serious job, and I want to concentrate on that.

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

Vada Chennai 2' needs a big budget.

I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it's not in Australia, but it's not too far.

At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made it worth it is not those awards and all those kind of things that I can barely remember because I was so overwhelmed. It was really that night in the editing room, that day on set. It was those things.

The more movies you make, the better you will get.

It's hard to get movies made.

The biggest surprise about making a movie has got to be the wait in between takes.

I've got dreams now of reinventing 'Hellraiser' and just getting my head on anything I can get my hands on that maybe I would love. 'Cause the possibilities are endless: I can make my own movies; I can make other people's movies. But if someone had a 'Hellraiser' script and had funding, and I loved it, let's go.

It takes two years to make a good film.

In Hollywood, I was used to being on a dirty old sound stage, and the whole crew is just scratching themselves. They don't care who you are.

I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.