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" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "
Robert Rodriguez
Something
Always
Impossible
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" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Story
Movies
Work
" 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
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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
People
Corruption
Talk
" 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
People
Look
Think
" 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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Enjoy
Audience
You
" I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "
Robert Rodriguez
Movies
Always
Stay-At-Home
" 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
Magic
Life
" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "
Robert Rodriguez
Austin
Live
People
" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
Robert Rodriguez
Anything
Children
Support
" Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out. "
Robert Rodriguez
Feel
World
Dream
" 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
Worth
You
Know
" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
Robert Rodriguez
Human Being
More
Think
" I love working with great actors. "
Robert Rodriguez
Love
I Love
Great
" 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
Look
Someone
Price
" 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
Freedom
You
People
" 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
Find
See
Film
" Changing the game is a mindset. "
Robert Rodriguez
Changing
Mindset
Game
" 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
Grow Up
Fast
Back
" 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
Teach
People
Empower
" I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping. "
Robert Rodriguez
Spend
Sleeping
Half
" 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
Children
Country
Speak
" 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
City
Sin
Movies
" 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
City
Doing
Sin
" I kind of like working fast. "
Robert Rodriguez
Like
Working
Fast
" I was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "
Robert Rodriguez
Up
Growing Up
Kids
" 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
Love
Work
Wife
" 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
Write
People
Your
" 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
Creative
You
Time
" 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
Think
Myself
Core