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" 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
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Sit
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" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
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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. "
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" I have so many friends who don't know how to cook. "
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" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
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" 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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" Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way. "
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" For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't. "
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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. "
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" Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir. "
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" I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping. "
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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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" I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "
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" Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories. "
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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. "
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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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" Changing the game is a mindset. "
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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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" Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out. "
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World
Dream
" 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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People
Corruption
Talk
" 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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Strong Women
Women
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" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
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" 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. "
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Work
" 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
Run
Way
" 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
" 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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" 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
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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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Love
Work
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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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See
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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. "
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You
Time