I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.
We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.
I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.