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" Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories. "
Robert Rodriguez
Done
Own
Rules
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" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
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Noir
Big
Always
" I have so many friends who don't know how to cook. "
Robert Rodriguez
Cook
Who
Many
" 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
" 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 be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "
Robert Rodriguez
Something
Always
Impossible
" 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 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
" 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 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
" I was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "
Robert Rodriguez
Up
Growing Up
Kids
" A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general. "
Robert Rodriguez
Creativity
Who
Watch
" Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology. "
Robert Rodriguez
People
Technology
Adopt
" 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
Value
You
Good
" 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
You
Will
Trying
" I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "
Robert Rodriguez
Movies
Always
Stay-At-Home
" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
Robert Rodriguez
Anything
Children
Support
" For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. "
Robert Rodriguez
Should
Me
Like
" 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
" 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
Women
Movies
" When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them. "
Robert Rodriguez
Just
Kind
Sit
" I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient. "
Robert Rodriguez
Want
Boundaries
More
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
World
Life
Home
" 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
" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "
Robert Rodriguez
Finance
Get
Outside
" 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
" 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