Robert Rodriguez Quotes
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I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
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A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.
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People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
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Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
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It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.
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When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
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Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.
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I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels.
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When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all the talent that they have. You really have to give them several different kinds of roles, in completely different movies, to push them and to push yourself.
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When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.
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If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
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If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
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Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
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Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.
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Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
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Changing the game is a mindset.
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I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.
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Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.
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All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.
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A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
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You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
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I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'
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I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
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Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.
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I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.
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Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.
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It's such a drag to make a movie.
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It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.
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It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up -- so it's no longer a screw up.
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