The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.

The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.

I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.

Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course accept those invitations because I could document what happened that way.

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.

After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.

sometime life is full of joy, and sometime life is full of pain and tears but we have to defeat it

Awareness is a great neutralizer of negative emotions." Living Beyond the Five Senses

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

I stopped short and sighed as Derek stepped up behind me, arms sliding around my waist. I leaned back against him and rel

If those people survive, others will be emboldened. If they don't, others will be intimidated.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.