Quotes by Jose Padilha

About Jose Padilha:

José Padilha 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. He is also the producer and director of the Netflix original series Narcos, starring frequent collaborator Wagner Moura.
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The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it help...

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. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

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 at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool actio...

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 by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is ...

Jose Padilha

Usually I say I have no imagination.

Jose Padilha

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

Jose Padilha

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

Jose Padilha

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

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

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.

Jose Padilha

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

Jose Padilha

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

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 up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neit...

Jose Padilha

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?

Jose Padilha

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

Jose Padilha

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 brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?

Jose Padilha

RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?'

Jose Padilha

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.

Jose Padilha

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

Jose Padilha

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

Jose Padilha

Author Bio

  • NameJose Padilha
  • Descriptionfilm director
  • BornAugust 1, 1967
  • CountryBrazil
  • ProfessionFilm Director