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" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
Robert Rodriguez
Drag
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" Changing the game is a mindset. "
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" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient. "
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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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" 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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" 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 don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
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" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "
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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 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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" 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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" I kind of like working fast. "
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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 love working with great actors. "
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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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" I was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "
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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 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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" 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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" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "
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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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" 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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