36 Quotes by Jose Padilha

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

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

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

Usually I say I have no imagination.

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's going to work thematically, and to know how one scene will got through another, and to get a sense of character.

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

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

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

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?'