Jose Padilha Quotes

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

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  Hypocrisy, Looks, Deals

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

  Jose Padilha

  Looks, Sometimes, Turns

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• 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. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Wings, Two

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

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  People, Watches, Television

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

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  Thinking, Media, Needs

  "José Padilha Talks ROBOCOP - Avoiding Aronofsky’s Script, His Take on the Material, Quieting the Rumor Mill, and More" by Matt Goldberg, collider.com. September 26, 2011.

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

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  Politician, Wells

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

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  Criminals, Wonder, Cop

  "Jose Padilha Says ‘Elite Squad’ Sequel Is His Scorsese-Like Take On Cops & Politics In Brazil". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I come from a documentary background and my natural tendency, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie, if I have something to talk about. If it's not about anything that matters, I don't feel like doing it. I'm not against people who make movies just for fun, but I'm not one of those guys. I just want to provoke thinking and debating about certain issues.

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  Fun, Thinking, Issues

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• Usually I say I have no imagination.

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  Imagination

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

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  People, Measurement, Description

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

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  War, Dirty, Choices

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• 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.

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  Superhero, Feels, Millions

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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 helps the project to work like that.

  Jose Padilha

  Writing, Thinking, Issues

  "Jose Padilha Talks Robocop Remake". Interview with Scott Collura, Max Nicholson, www.ign.com. November 7, 2011.

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

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  Police, Violence, Film

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• 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.

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  Trying, Conscious, Clear

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• 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.

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  Issues, Stories, Way

  Source: collider.com

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

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  Thinking, Political, Tone

  "RoboCop remake director Jose Padilha says reboot is ‘urgently needed’". metro.co.uk. September 22, 2011.

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• Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

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  Objectivity, People, Principles

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• 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?

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  Humanity, Criticism, Firsts

  "Exclusive: José Padilha Shares His Take on RoboCop" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. November 7, 2011.

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

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  Shooting, Way, Scripts

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• 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 global, not local.

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  Technology, Impact, People

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• 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.

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  Race, Class, Issues

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• 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.

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  Stars, Important, Acting

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• 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

  Criminals, Violence, Wonder

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• 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.

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  Block, Giving, Cameras

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