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

Robert Rodriguez

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" I collect a lot of art. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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. "

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" I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" It's such a drag to make a movie. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 love working with great actors. "

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

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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. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

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

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

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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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" 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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