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

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

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

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 Sov….

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….

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 fr….

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 g….

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 ….

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 hypocri….

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

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

A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you have a dramatic structure that….

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 happ….

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….

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

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

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..

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. S….

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 abou….

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

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