Jose Padilha Quotes

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• I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?
• No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is…
• As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.
• Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.
• How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?
• I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.
• I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.
• In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.
• Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.
• Usually I say I have no imagination.
• We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
• Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.
• A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What…
• How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone…
• I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving…
• I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same…
• If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia,…
• Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and…
• People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes…
• Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people -…

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