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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Worth
You
Know
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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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" 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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" I was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "
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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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" 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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Life
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" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "
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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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Magic
Life
" The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life. "
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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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Value
You
Good
" I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie. "
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Kids
Movie
Adult
" 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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Just
Kind
Sit
" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
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Drag
Make
Movie
" I kind of like working fast. "
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Like
Working
Fast
" A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general. "
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Who
Watch
" I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country. "
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Children
Country
Speak
" 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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Tough
How
Know
" I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping. "
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Spend
Sleeping
Half
" I collect a lot of art. "
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Lot
Art
Collect
" 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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Grow Up
Fast
Back
" Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes. "
Robert Rodriguez
Think
Myself
Core
" Changing the game is a mindset. "
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Changing
Mindset
Game
" For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. "
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Should
Me
Like
" 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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Enjoy
Audience
You
" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
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Noir
Big
Always
" 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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Find
See
Film
" Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology. "
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People
Technology
Adopt
" 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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City
Doing
Sin
" 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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Love
Work
Wife
" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
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Think