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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. "
Robert Rodriguez
Write
People
Your
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" A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better. "
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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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" People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there. "
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" Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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
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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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Only
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Never
" When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them. "
Robert Rodriguez
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Kind
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" I collect a lot of art. "
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Lot
Art
Collect
" 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
Experience
Say
" I love working with great actors. "
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Love
I Love
Great
" I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient. "
Robert Rodriguez
Want
Boundaries
More
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Changing the game is a mindset. "
Robert Rodriguez
Changing
Mindset
Game
" 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
" 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
" It's such a drag to make a movie. "
Robert Rodriguez
Drag
Make
Movie
" 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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Find
See
Film
" I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. "
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Movies
Always
Stay-At-Home
" I kind of like working fast. "
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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! "
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Sleep
Magic
Life
" 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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New
Way
Love
" You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way. "
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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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City
Sin
Movies
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Cook
Who
Many