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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. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" Changing the game is a mindset. "

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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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" 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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" I kind of like working fast. "

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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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" For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. "

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" I collect a lot of art. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance. "

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