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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
You
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Done
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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
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" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "
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Get
Outside
" I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "
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" I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie. "
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Movie
Adult
" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
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Anything
Children
Support
" 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
" I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model. "
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Women
Movies
" For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. "
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Should
Me
Like
" 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 kind of like working fast. "
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Like
Working
Fast
" Changing the game is a mindset. "
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Changing
Mindset
Game
" 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
" 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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Price
" 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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Fast
Back
" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "
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Care
You
" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "
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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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" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
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