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" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "
Robert Rodriguez
Problems
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You
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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
" I kind of like working fast. "
Robert Rodriguez
Like
Working
Fast
" 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 always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "
Robert Rodriguez
Movies
Always
Stay-At-Home
" The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. "
Robert Rodriguez
Finance
Get
Outside
" I have so many friends who don't know how to cook. "
Robert Rodriguez
Cook
Who
Many
" 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 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.' "
Robert Rodriguez
Love
Work
Wife
" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
Robert Rodriguez
Anything
Children
Support
" 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 was the one in charge of the kids growing up. "
Robert Rodriguez
Up
Growing Up
Kids
" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "
Robert Rodriguez
Austin
Live
People
" I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being. "
Robert Rodriguez
Human Being
More
Think
" 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
" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
Robert Rodriguez
Drag
Make
Movie
" 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
" 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
" I collect a lot of art. "
Robert Rodriguez
Lot
Art
Collect
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Rodriguez
You
Experience
Say
" 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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Find
See
Film
" 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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Value
You
Good
" 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
" 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
" I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient. "
Robert Rodriguez
Want
Boundaries
More
" 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
" I love working with great actors. "
Robert Rodriguez
Love
I Love
Great
" The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life. "
Robert Rodriguez
Only
Work
Never
" 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
" 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