Robert Rodriguez Quotes - Page 2

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• A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Looks, Screens, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Finance, Fund, Studios

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• Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Technology, People, Creative

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2002.

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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

  Art, Technology, Ideas

  "Staying faithful to 'Sin'". www.today.com. March 30, 2005.

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• I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Sleep, Done, Half

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• The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Wanted

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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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Growing Up, Kids, Wish

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• For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Should Have, Should, Like Something

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• 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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Technology, Looks, Use

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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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Dream, Work Out, World

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• Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Eye, Character, People

  "Robert Rodriguez and Showrunner Carlos Coto on ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 25, 2015.

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• I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Art, Dad, Home

  Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all the talent that they have. You really have to give them several different kinds of roles, in completely different movies, to push them and to push yourself.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Giving, Roles, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Two, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Fun, Real, Issues

  Source: collider.com

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• It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up -- so it's no longer a screw up.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Worry, Screw Ups, Problem

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• Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Trying, Film, Fantastic

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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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  People, Giving, Looks

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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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Running, Moving, Issues

  "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Press conference, collider.com. August 29, 2010.

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• 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, Strong, Models

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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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Design Work, Knowing, Boards

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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

  Block, Home, School

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2002.

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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, Eye, Magic

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• I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Technology, Want, Boundaries

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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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Kids, Ideas, Want

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