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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Think
Myself
Core
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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
People
Look
Think
" 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
World
Life
Home
" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
Robert Rodriguez
Noir
Big
Always
" 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
Story
Movies
Work
" I kind of like working fast. "
Robert Rodriguez
Like
Working
Fast
" I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient. "
Robert Rodriguez
Want
Boundaries
More
" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
Robert Rodriguez
Human Being
More
Think
" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
Robert Rodriguez
Anything
Children
Support
" Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories. "
Robert Rodriguez
Done
Own
Rules
" 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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Teach
People
Empower
" Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out. "
Robert Rodriguez
Feel
World
Dream
" When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done. "
Robert Rodriguez
You
Always
Done
" A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general. "
Robert Rodriguez
Creativity
Who
Watch
" 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
City
Doing
Sin
" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "
Robert Rodriguez
Something
Always
Impossible
" People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S. "
Robert Rodriguez
People
Corruption
Talk
" 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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Freedom
You
People
" The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life. "
Robert Rodriguez
Only
Work
Never
" 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
Write
People
Your
" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "
Robert Rodriguez
Finance
Get
Outside
" I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie. "
Robert Rodriguez
Kids
Movie
Adult
" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "
Robert Rodriguez
Problems
Care
You
" Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology. "
Robert Rodriguez
People
Technology
Adopt
" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
Robert Rodriguez
Drag
Make
Movie
" 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
New
Way
Love
" I collect a lot of art. "
Robert Rodriguez
Lot
Art
Collect
" 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
Sleep
Magic
Life
" 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
Creative
You
Time
" 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
Quick
Run
Way
" 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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Grow Up
Fast
Back