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.

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

I think we need to make documentaries about fantasy and storytelling. I think I just started to scratch the surface of a method that allows us to do that. We want to be sucked into the events, suspend our disbelief and imagine that this is a fiction, but actually putting onscreen the gap between who the people are and who they want to be and therefore opening the question about why they want to be this person.

I've become more forgiving, even though I have no patience at all for denial, justification of wrong, rationalization. I've become virtually a pacifist, so I feel that no atrocity is ever justified. I've become more vigilant about evil. I think I recognize its seeds more quickly. I see its source.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

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

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