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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. "

Robert Rodriguez

Teach

People

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie. "

" Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process. "

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

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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. "

" When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" I collect a lot of art. "

" Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories. "

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

" 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! "

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

Robert Rodriguez

Human Being

Think

" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "

" When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done. "

" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "

" Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes. "

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

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

" 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. "