Toby Oppenheimer Biography

Fast Facts

• His documentary about Amish teenagers, "Devil's Playground," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002
• Quote: "I have a true aversion to recreations․ I find them to do the exact opposite of what they are intended to do - they take me out of the story as opposed to pull me in․"
• Quote: "[on Marion Barry] "He's not an easy man to deal with․ He's very mercurial in his moods․ He does not look to the past; he prefers to look to the future․ And that's difficult when you're doing a documentary about somebody․""
• Best known as a documentary director and producer who worked on "The Nine Lives of Marion Barry" and "The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist․"