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I Believe We Have Two Ideas About How Movies Are Made In Our Heads. Idealizations. Platonic Ideals. One Of Them Is Of A Movie That Is Completely Uncontrolled, And Another Is A Movie That Is Completely Controlled. The Auteur Theory Vs. Cinéma Vérité.

If You Asked Me What Makes The World Go Round, I Would Say Self-deception. Self-deception Allows Us To Create A Consistent Narrative For Ourselves That We Actually Believe. I’m Not Saying That The Truth Doesn’t Matter. It Does. But Self-deception Is How We Survive.

Writing Is A Form Of Talking, Although Writing Is Such An Odd Thing In And Of Itself. People Go About It In Such Different Ways.

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.

My Films Are As Much Concerned With Truth As Anything In Vérité. Maybe More So.