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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. "

Robert Rodriguez

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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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" 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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" I kind of like working fast. "

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I collect a lot of art. "

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

" Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process. "

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

" Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out. "

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

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