36 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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.

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

If you replace a soldier with a machine, you take away the possibility of the soldier or the policeman to not do something the state asks of him. He may think it's unethical to do it. A machine doesn't have that critical perspective.

The relationship between fascism and robotics, for instance, it's very clear that it's going to become way more important as time goes by.

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.

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