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" I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie. "
Robert Rodriguez
Kids
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" I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping. "
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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 collect a lot of art. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I love working with great actors. "
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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 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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" Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements. "
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" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
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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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" 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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" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "
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Finance
Get
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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 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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