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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
City
Doing
Sin
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" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "
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People
" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "
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Always
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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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Own
Rules
" 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. "
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You
Experience
Say
" 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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Movies
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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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" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
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Big
Always
" 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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Tough
How
Know
" 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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Life
Home
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Art
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