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

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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. "

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

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

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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. "

" Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements. "

" 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. "

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

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

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Want

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" A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general. "

" I kind of like working fast. "

Robert Rodriguez

Working

Fast

" 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 collect a lot of art. "

" Changing the game is a mindset. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Rodriguez

Should

" People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S. "

" 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. "

" The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "