Long, long before I became a filmmaker I was talking to killers. Filmmaking was an after thought.

One of the strengths of my interviews is that I really, honest to God, have no idea what people are going to say.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.

Not suing others does not mean that others won't sue you.If people are desperate enough to think that they can gain some kind of financial advantage, they'll sue.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.