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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
New
Way
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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 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 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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" 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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" Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements. "
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" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "
Robert Rodriguez
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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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Quick
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" I was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "
Robert Rodriguez
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" I kind of like working fast. "
Robert Rodriguez
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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
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" I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient. "
Robert Rodriguez
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" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "
Robert Rodriguez
Finance
Get
Outside
" I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model. "
Robert Rodriguez
Strong Women
Women
Movies
" 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
" When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them. "
Robert Rodriguez
Just
Kind
Sit
" 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
" For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. "
Robert Rodriguez
Should
Me
Like
" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
Robert Rodriguez
Drag
Make
Movie
" I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "
Robert Rodriguez
Movies
Always
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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Teach
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Empower
" 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 collect a lot of art. "
Robert Rodriguez
Lot
Art
Collect
" 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
" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "
Robert Rodriguez
Problems
Care
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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! "
Robert Rodriguez
Sleep
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Life
" 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
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" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
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Anything
Children
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" I have so many friends who don't know how to cook. "
Robert Rodriguez
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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
World
Life
Home
" 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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You
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