Robert Rodriguez Quotes

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Robert Rodriguez

Profession : Director

Birth : June 20, 1968

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

Robert Rodriguez

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

Robert Rodriguez

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

Robert Rodriguez

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

Robert Rodriguez

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

Robert Rodriguez

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

Robert Rodriguez

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

Robert Rodriguez

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

Robert Rodriguez

Changing the game is a mindset.

Robert Rodriguez

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

Robert Rodriguez

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

Robert Rodriguez

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

Robert Rodriguez

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

Robert Rodriguez

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

Robert Rodriguez

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Robert Rodriguez

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.

Robert Rodriguez

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

Robert Rodriguez

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

Robert Rodriguez

When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.

Robert Rodriguez

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

Robert Rodriguez