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.

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

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'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.

When you approach someone as a human being, truly and try to be as open as safety allows, some of the bigger reenactments with a whole army of paramilitary people participating, I couldn't say my feelings openly in front of everybody, without it being dangerous for my crew.

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

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