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I came across the Indonesian genocide in 2001, when I found myself making a film in a community of survivors. They were plantation workers, and it turned out they were struggling to organize a union.

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My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

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My first memory of cinema is my mother taking me to see 'Silkwood,' which is about a whistleblower at a nuclear power plant.

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I don't like to eat when I watch films because it distracts me. Anything crunchy or in a wrapper is terrible.

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I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.

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We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.

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In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I'm good. I elevate myself. I call it the 'Star Wars morality'. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell.

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For my part, as a filmmaker, I've never been a fly-on-the-wall documentarian. I have no commitment to that method. I believe it's a lie.

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I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

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I think that our task as filmmakers is to create the most insightful reality given the most pressing questions.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Director

Born: September 23rd, 1974

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