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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. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

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

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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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" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "

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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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" It's such a drag to make a movie. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model. "

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

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