In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "préman", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English.

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.

When you approach someone as a human being, truly and try to be as open as safety allows, some of the bigger reenactments with a whole army of paramilitary people participating, I couldn't say my feelings openly in front of everybody, without it being dangerous for my crew.

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.

I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker.

I've become more forgiving, even though I have no patience at all for denial, justification of wrong, rationalization. I've become virtually a pacifist, so I feel that no atrocity is ever justified. I've become more vigilant about evil. I think I recognize its seeds more quickly. I see its source.

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.