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 happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they’re sci-fi but they’re not. Jose Padilha Read Quote
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. Jose Padilha Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the ’80s, don’t you? Jose Padilha Read Quote
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time. Jose Padilha Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Jose Padilha Read Quote
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. Jose Padilha Read Quote
