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

Robert Rodriguez

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" People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S. "

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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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" 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! "

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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. "

Robert Rodriguez

" I kind of like working fast. "

Robert Rodriguez

" I love working with great actors. "

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

" 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.' "

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez