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

Robert Rodriguez

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I collect a lot of art. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Changing the game is a mindset. "

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" When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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