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

Films can't change the society, they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism. I feel formally that I've scratched the surface of something very important about the nature of nonfiction film, about what we're very rarely honest about: When you film anybody, they start performing.

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

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.

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

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.

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.