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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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

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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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 collect a lot of art. "

Robert Rodriguez

" I love working with great actors. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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

" I kind of like working fast. "

Robert Rodriguez

" It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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

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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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

" 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

" 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

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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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

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

Robert Rodriguez