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" 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
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" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
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" Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "
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" I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
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" 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. "
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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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Movies
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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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Who
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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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You
Will
Trying
" The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life. "
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Only
Work
Never
" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
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Anything
Children
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" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
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Drag
Make
Movie
" 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. "
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" I was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "
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" For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. "
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Should
Me
Like
" 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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Think
Myself
Core
" 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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Teach
People
Empower
" I love working with great actors. "
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Love
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Great
" 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. "
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" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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