Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

I look for stories everywhere.

The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.

I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to be had and a film to be conjured.

I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.

Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.

Stories let you be the hero, the doctor, the lawyer, the gladiator. They let you go on a journey.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

I'm always searching for that element of discovery, whether I'm making music, or just generally.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

I spy with my little eye a great story.