Disable ads!

24 quotes by Jose Padilha

José Padilha (Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ paˈdʒiʎɐ]; born August 1, 1967) is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and the 2014 remake of RoboCop. He has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Elite Squad in 2008.
Read full biography of Jose Padilha →

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

0

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?

0

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, and the... →

0

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.

0

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... →

0

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 and how do you program a... →

0

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

0

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 - this is... →

0

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

0

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

0

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

0

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

0

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... →

0
Add a quote!
Background photo by Giuliana