The first Polaroid ever took of someone in my family was my son when he was about four years old.

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

I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

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.

You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.