Revealing interview with the director

"At its heart, Abu Ghraib is a story about photographs, misdirection and war crimes. But it's a different story than people really want to see. It's complex and it's nuanced. The movie was longer at one point, and had many more photographs, and maybe I wish that I had left it that way. I cut it because, you know, movies, if they get to be too long, no one's going to see them....
...what is interesting is that the taking of the photographs... was disobedience to authority, not obedience to authority. The photography was an act of freedom and disobedience.

...Many of the other Iraq documentaries took a completely uncritical look at the photographs. Those filmmakers were interested in simply decrying the policies of the Bush administration so just took an uncritical look at all of these kinds of things...

...no one ever considers the fact that they [Graner, Harman, etc] might be people like you and me, with complex emotions and reasons...

... photography helps us to simplify, and to lie to ourselves about the world."