Jose Padilha

Usually I say I have no imagination.

— Jose Padilha

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done…

— Jose Padilha

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew…

— Jose Padilha

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

— Jose Padilha

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several…

— Jose Padilha

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets.…

— Jose Padilha

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

— Jose Padilha

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

— Jose Padilha

RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it…

— Jose Padilha

A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know…

— Jose Padilha

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.

— Jose Padilha

If you replace a soldier with a machine, you take away the possibility of the soldier or the policeman to not do…

— Jose Padilha

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

— Jose Padilha

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

— Jose Padilha

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

— Jose Padilha

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in…

— Jose Padilha

I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me.…

— Jose Padilha

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by…

— Jose Padilha

It's easy to make a pirate copy when you have digital tapes of things. And it was so complicated and complex to…

— Jose Padilha

A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like…

— Jose Padilha

How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity…

— Jose Padilha

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

— Jose Padilha

The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production…

— Jose Padilha

I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening…

— Jose Padilha

You're looking for the best way of shooting it, but sometimes the best way of shooting it is changing the script.

— Jose Padilha