Jose Padilha Quotes

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?'

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.

I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

If you tried to turn figures into human form and give a computer flesh and blood you would probably end up with something like Mr. Jay. He is the personification of joylessness, the missing link between man and the machine.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

A man-like object

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.

I was actually born a robot, so 'Westworld' is just autobiographical.

Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe.

People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities to computers. We are merging with our smartphones. Very soon, they will just be part of the body.

I actually learned about Cyborg through the cartoon shows, and I think that's how most people learn about Cyborg.

It only makes sense that as our society becomes more and more integrated with technology, we'll start to see more cyborgs, grinders, biohackers - whatever you want to call us - thriving at the intersection of tech and body modification.

Of course, the idea that a robot can have a sexual identity is kind of an absurd one.

I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.

I'm fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.

With Cyborg, this is a winnable fight for me.

I have a suspicion that the politicians' revival of the old behaviourist ideas and techniques will be helped and reinforced by a powerful ally - the machines we have built. The computers.

I don't think Cyborg has ever felt the aggressiveness and the power that I will bring to her.