“Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.” — Joshua Oppenheimer

If you film a little boy going to school, the big event in that boy's day and all the classmates' and teachers' day is you being there filming, not the school.

I think we are fascinated and scared by evil at the same time. I think it's important not to suppress our fascination but to walk into it with open eyes.

Millions of Indonesians who live with secrets in their family who have a sense of that kind of secret that their parents never told them, want to be told about what happened so they can know where they come from.

I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.