Max Joseph Quotes

Max Joseph

Profession : Director

Birth : January 16, 1982

'Catfish' is a great project that we have a blast doing, and it's really fun and at the zeitgeist in the world - certainly in the U.S., hopefully in the U.K. and I imagine the rest of the world. Being at the centre of this discussion and this subject has been really incredible as both a filmmaker and someone who likes to participate in pop culture.

Max Joseph

'In the Grace of Your Love' is a beautiful, eerie dance song.

Max Joseph

The Juan McLean is great.

Max Joseph

Manti Te'o got catfished. It happens.

Max Joseph

The more we are involved in social media, the easier it is for someone to lie about who they are and to kind of fabricate a story about them, fabricate a life that is grander than the one that they lead.

Max Joseph

This idea that in America you can be anyone you want - you can reinvent yourself. Well, I think that the Internet has maybe taken that kind of American idea and has democratized it for the world.

Max Joseph

I don't think the Internet is necessarily a dangerous place. It's only dangerous if you don't make people earn your trust. You can't take people at their word. You got to do a little digging and make sure to verify that you are talking to a real person or the person that you think you're talking to.

Max Joseph

A lot of times in films, the protagonist is either the leader of the group or the nerd of the group. I've never identified with either of those things.

Max Joseph

We all want to find someone and be loved.

Max Joseph

The less you know about the person, the more you fill in the rosiest details.

Max Joseph

When you want to fall in love, you ignore red flags in the optimistic hope that it does work out.

Max Joseph

I've never had a crazy online relationship that's left me vulnerable and embarrassed and humiliated.

Max Joseph

I've been a fan of electronic music for a while.

Max Joseph

If you're not catfishing someone for romantic reasons, then it's going to be hard to sympathize and be compassionate with someone who is doing it for revenge, who's doing it for fun and games, who's doing it because they want to be on TV.

Max Joseph

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.

Max Joseph

The traveling that 'Catfish' affords us and the cross-section of America that we see on a constant basis, I would have never gotten that living in the bubble that is Los Angeles or going home to visit my parents in the bubble that is New York.

Max Joseph