Jose Padilha Quotes

In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.

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

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

The relationship between fascism and robotics, for instance, it's very clear that it's going to become way more important as time goes by.

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

It's easy to make a pirate copy when you have digital tapes of things. And it was so complicated and complex to go through all the post-production of a movie without ever going digital.

I like some superhero movies, but I have to say that they all feel the same to me. I've seen them a million times. They're all the same movie.

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 going to happen?

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 out hypocrisy.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

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.

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

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

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

Usually I say I have no imagination.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

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

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 marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

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

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