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" For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. "

Robert Rodriguez

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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. "

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" I have so many friends who don't know how to cook. "

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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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" I was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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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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" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "

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" 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. "

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" I love working with great actors. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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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" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "

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" 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! "

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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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" 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 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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" 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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" I collect a lot of art. "

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

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" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "

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" I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "

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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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" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "

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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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" 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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