Jose Padilha Quotes
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.

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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
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My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, do a little bit of school, go to practice, do a little more school, then go back to practice. My mom had a crockpot and a mini traveling oven, so we'd be cooking and eating dinners at the gym.
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You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want to seduce people that you will seduce them; you can hit on somebody and it doesn't work. But when you hit on them and it works, then it's really cool.
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I know now that I want to do more voice-over projects. They really have the ability to transport you into the world of whatever movie it is you are working on.
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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.