Jose Padilha Quotations

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?

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

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