Robert Rodriguez quotes

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Challenges

A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Looks

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Directors #Film

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Writing #Mind #Life Experience

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Way #Impossible

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.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Giving #Roles #Use

If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#People #Creative #Unstoppable

Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Blessing #Giving #People

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Art #Technology #Design

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.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Artist #Drawing #Finals

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.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Ideas #Trying #Pieces

We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Two #People #Different

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

#Superhero #Care #Way

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Opportunity #Excellence #Never Quit

Changing the game is a mindset.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Games #Mindset

Too many creative people don't wanna learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people. Become technical. You can learn that. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#People #Creative #Unstoppable

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

#Thinking #Creative #Use

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

#Art #Dad #Home

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Art #Mistake #Way

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

#Growing Up #Kids #Wish

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

#Hollywood #Tough #Process

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.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Thinking #People #Looks

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

#People #Austin

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#People #Immigration #Mexico

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Block #Home #School

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

#Sleep #Eye #Magic

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

#Creativity #Dvds #People

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

#People #Giving #Looks

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

#Dream #Work Out #World

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Technology #Want #Boundaries

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#People #Empowering #Want

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.'
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Growing Up #Kids #Home

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

#Real #Issues #Done

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Noir #Fans #Bigs

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

#Wanted

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

#Writing #Ideas #People

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

#Glasses #Kind #Forget

Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Children #Support #Empowering

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.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Technology #Use #Levels

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

#Struggle #Together #Firsts

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

#Kids #Ideas #Want

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

#Knowing #Design #Boards

I kind of like working fast.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Kind

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

#Finance #Fund

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Sleep #Done #Half

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

#Art #Technology #Ideas

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

#Thinking #Predator #Humans

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Strong Women #Strong #Models

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

#Running #Moving #Issues

I collect a lot of art.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Art

For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Should

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

#Stories #Done #World

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Technology #People #Creative

I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Thinking #People #Growth

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Creativity #Problem #Used

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

#Cooks

That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Eye #Waste #Six

It's such a drag to make a movie.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Drag

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

#Thinking #Tv Shows #Tvs

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Kids #Adults #Fantasy

I love working with great actors.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Actors

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.
-- Robert Rodriguez

#Data #Doe #Scientist

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

#Agents #Steps #Actors