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When it comes to reading, filmmaker Ody C. Harahap is not a patient reader who wants to wait too long for a book to grab his full attention.

'€œI like books that can immediately grab my attention. If I can'€™t get into the character in the first 10 to 15 pages, I will just leave it and will no longer be curious about it,'€ he said.

Due to his busy schedule nowadays, he said he did not have the privilege of reading books in just one sitting anymore.

'€œI like making films more than reading books, but I also enjoy reading as books can take me to a different world,'€ said the director of, among other films, Kapan Kawin? (When are you going to get married?), Punk in Love and Cinta/Mati (Love/Die).

The 42-year-old Ody said that although he also wrote movie scripts, he was not ready yet to make a film that was adapted from a book.

'€œI always want to make a movie based on a book, but I'€™m not ready yet because it'€™s not an easy task; we can'€™t just put the whole book into a film, we need to sort it out first,'€ he said.

However, he said he wanted to make a biopic of Hoegeng Imam Santoso, an Indonesian Police chief from the mid-1960s, after reading his biography.

Saman

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