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" 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
Tough
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" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "
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" I kind of like working fast. "
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" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Fast
Back
" I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping. "
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Spend
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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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" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
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Think
" Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out. "
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" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "
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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. "
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Talk
" Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories. "
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" I was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "
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" I have so many friends who don't know how to cook. "
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" 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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" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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