It's easy to make a pirate copy when you have digital tapes of things. And it was so complicated and complex to go through all the post-production of a movie without ever going digital.

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

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

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

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.

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

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

Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

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.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

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

Sometimes when you are sad enough, your soul becomes ghost for you.

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

You always want to start with a bang and put your best food forward.

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

Never allow your enemies to educate your children.

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?