I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.
My work is not directly about the social or political.
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.
Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.
We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.
The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.
I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.
There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.