“As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.” — Jose Padilha Quote

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

I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

Life has many twists and turns.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

We always love actors taking unexpected turns.

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.