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" Changing the game is a mindset. "

Robert Rodriguez

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" 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. "

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" I love working with great actors. "

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

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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

" 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. "

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" 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

" 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

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

Robert Rodriguez

" I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient. "

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

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

Robert Rodriguez

" I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on. "

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

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

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 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

" I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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

" I collect a lot of art. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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

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

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