Robert Rodriguez Quotes

• When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Topics in Inspirational

• Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

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  Tags in Craziest, Elements

• You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they’ll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Movie, Ask

• Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always

• When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

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  Tags in Glasses, Forget

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

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  Tags in Exploitation

• What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but… That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

  Robert Rodriguez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in My Life, Bed

• Usually, I’m just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pleasing, Usually

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

  Robert Rodriguez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Finance, Studios

• The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.

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  Tags in My Life, The Only Thing

• Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

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  Tags in Empowering, Support

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

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  Tags in Austin

• 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

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  Tags in Equipment, Instinct

• It’s such a drag to make a movie.

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  Tags in Drag

• 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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Filmmaker, Studios

• 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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Step, Studio, Amount

• 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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stick, Story

• If I’m excited about it, I’m pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I’m bored with an idea, you can bet they’re going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I’m fairly excited about.

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  Tags in Excited, Fairly

• 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

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  Tags in Grow Up, Fast

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Decided, Story

Robert Rodriguez (53)

Birth:	20th June, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Editor, Musician, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet Terror, and Machete. He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

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