A Lot Of The Themes Of My

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.

It Was Assumed That You Can't Touch Evangelical Christians. "oh, They're The Republican Right. Stay Away From Those People. Don't Even Try To Talk To Them." Well, What's Interesting Is That There Were Evangelical Christians Who Were Voting For Kerry. There Were Right-to-lifers Who Were Voting For Kerry. And It's Interesting To Listen To The Reasons Why. To Ignore That Segment Of The Electorate Is Moronic. Particularly If You Don't Know Who Those People Are, Or What Their Concerns Are.

I Never Intended To Be A Documentary Filmmaker. I Think I Became A Documentary Filmmaker Because I Had Trouble Writing, And I Had Trouble Finishing Things.

Interviews, When They Are Just Simply An Exercise In Hearing What You Want To Hear, Are Of No Interest. And Many, Many, If Not Most Interviews Have That Character. The Interviewer Who Comes In With A List Of Bullet Points They're Going To Address One After The Other. Interviews, Properly Considered, Should Be Investigative. You Should Not Know What You're Going To Hear. You Should Be Surprised.

I Gave Someone A Perverse Argument Not So Long Ago About Why Advertising Is Better Than Movies. You Want To Hear It? Movies Operate From A Really Disingenuous Premise, That People Are Heroes. I Know A Lot Of People And Have Had An Opportunity Over The Years To Observe Them. Are They Heroes...? Let's Put It This Way. Advertising Tries Something Simpler And More Believable: Products As Heroes. I Guess The Idea Is: When All Else Fails, Put Your Faith In Conditioner.