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?

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.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

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

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

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.

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?