Max Joseph Quotes

Max Joseph

Profession : Director

Birth : January 16, 1982

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

Max Joseph

When you grow up Jewish, you are exposed at a very young age to the phenomenon of anti-Semitism and its extreme manifestation in the Holocaust. I spent a lot of time as a little kid wondering how something like that could happen.

Max Joseph

Trump's hate-filled rhetoric, blatant chauvinism, mean bullying, and open admiration of authoritarian rulers are more than just hints of what's to come if he is elected.

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As the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, our president is more than a list of policies. They set the tone of our national character.

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No one believes that they're a bad person at the end of the day.

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We all have excuses. We could all take all of the things that have happened to us over the course of our lives and use them as excuses for being cruel to others.

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If you live in a big city, and you're surrounded by people, you're way more in touch with humanity than you would be if you lived in a very remote area and just spent all day long on the computer.

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On 'Catfish,' I'm a co-host and onscreen cameraman, maybe the second onscreen cameraman after Wes Bentley's turn in 'American Beauty,' which is funny and ironic. But before that, I'd been doing a lot of creative nonfiction.

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Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

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It's funny - until 'Catfish,' none of my films were angled at young people except for the fact that they were angled at me and my contemporaries. And that's who I'm constantly making things for. I'm not imagining a younger audience I'm trying to impart wisdom to; I don't want to seem pretentious enough to think I can impart wisdom.

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I think making electronic music isn't much different from writing a book or painting a picture or making a film. It's a creative process, and it's an art form.

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Everyone's on their phones, and everyone makes things with the aid of some electronic tool. Electronic music is no different.

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There's something unique about coming of age in 2015 with the way the world is.

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I think with social media and Instagram, people are able to see what's over the fence of everyone else, and it all seems within reach.

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I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

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It's not that what LCD Soundsystem and Juan MacLean do is necessarily simple, but they are basic loops and beats and songs that are just pleasurable in a really basic way.

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Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

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I find reggae is really nice in the morning.

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When I was 19, I did an internship in Los Angeles and lived with a friend of mine in the Valley.

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I spend a lot of time hanging out with kids in their early twenties who feel like they've messed up and have really screwed up in a lot of ways. We spend a lot of time talking to them and saying, 'You can change that.'

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