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" I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "
Robert Rodriguez
Movies
Always
Stay-At-Home
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" 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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" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "
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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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" I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
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" I love working with great actors. "
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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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" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Changing the game is a mindset. "
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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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" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "
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" I was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "
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" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
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Drag
Make
Movie
" 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
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" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
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" The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life. "
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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 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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" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "
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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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" I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model. "
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" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
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