“How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?” IfsFilmViolenceLet MePolice Author: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 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.” PeopleIfsLooksImportantHappensRunningTodayJobsLawBehaviorConceptsAreasMachinesCriminalsSoftwareSci FiLaw EnforcementEnforcement Author: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 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.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoBrainGrewGrew UpCapitalismWingsUnionsKillingTwo ThingsSovietDictatorshipSoviet UnionMarxismLiberatingRight WingBrazilCzechoslovakiaControlling Everything Author:Jose Padilha
“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?” IfsFirstsHumanitySocialLosesConceptsCriticismBrilliantFantasticRobocop Author:Jose Padilha
“I come from a documentary background and my natural tendency, as a filmmaker, is to make a movie, if I have something to talk about. If it's not about anything that matters, I don't feel like doing it. I'm not against people who make movies just for fun, but I'm not one of those guys. I just want to provoke thinking and debating about certain issues.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFeelsMatterGuyCertainFunNaturalIssuesBackgroundsTendenciesFilmmakerProvokingDocumentariesJust For Fun Author:Jose Padilha
“Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.” PeopleIfsWatchesTelevisionProveSophisticated Author:Jose Padilha
“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.” IfsThinkingMayStatesAsksPossibilityPerspectiveMachinesSoldierCriticalPolicemenUnethical Author:Jose Padilha
