Jose Padilha
Jose Padilha
José Bastos Padilha Netois a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and the 2014 remake of RoboCop. He has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Elite Squad in 2008. He is also the producer of the Netflix original series Narcos, starring frequent collaborator Wagner Moura, and directed the first two episodes in the series...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth1 August 1967
CountryBrazil
Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.
Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.
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.
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.
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.
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.