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" I collect a lot of art. "
Robert Rodriguez
Lot
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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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City
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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Look
Someone
Price
" 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
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Core
" 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
" I have so many friends who don't know how to cook. "
Robert Rodriguez
Cook
Who
Many
" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "
Robert Rodriguez
Something
Always
Impossible
" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "
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Problems
Care
You
" 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
" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
Robert Rodriguez
Noir
Big
Always
" I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping. "
Robert Rodriguez
Spend
Sleeping
Half
" Changing the game is a mindset. "
Robert Rodriguez
Changing
Mindset
Game
" Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements. "
Robert Rodriguez
Write
People
Your
" 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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Quick
Run
Way
" I was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "
Robert Rodriguez
Up
Growing Up
Kids
" 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
" 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
" I kind of like working fast. "
Robert Rodriguez
Like
Working
Fast
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Rodriguez
You
Experience
Say
" Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology. "
Robert Rodriguez
People
Technology
Adopt
" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
Robert Rodriguez
Human Being
More
Think
" 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
How
Know
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Rodriguez
New
Way
Love
" 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
" The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life. "
Robert Rodriguez
Only
Work
Never
" 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
" For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. "
Robert Rodriguez
Should
Me
Like
" 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
" 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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World
Life
Home