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

- 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 Sov…

- Jose Padilha

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

- 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…

- 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 fr…

- Jose Padilha

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…

- Jose Padilha

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

- Jose Padilha

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

- Jose Padilha

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…

- Jose Padilha