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There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.

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We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

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The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.

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I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.

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The whole tradition of cinema is dominated, really, by films about good guys versus bad guys, good versus evil. But we have very few films about the nature of evil itself.

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I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.

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Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course accept those invitations because I could document what happened that way.

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