Robert Rodriguez Quotes

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• If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Creativity, People, Creative

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• Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Challenges, Seeking

  Robert Rodriguez (2004). “Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over”, TokyoPop

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• Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Motivational, Way, Impossible

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2017

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• Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Creativity, Problem, Used

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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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Thinking, Creative, Use

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• Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Directors, Film

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• All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Hard Work, Years, Differences

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• Too many creative people don't wanna learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people. Become technical. You can learn that. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

  Robert Rodriguez

  People, Creative, Unstoppable

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• If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Stars, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Art, Mistake, Way

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• When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Opportunity, Excellence, Never Quit

  Robert Rodriguez (1995). “Rebel Without a Crew, Or, How a 23-year-old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player”, E P Dutton

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• When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Art, Technology, Design

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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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Ideas, Trying, Pieces

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• You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Superhero, Care, Way

  "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 29, 2010.

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• 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

  Struggle, Together, Firsts

  "An interview with Robert Rodriguez" by Brian Z., www.ign.com. July 25, 2003.

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• 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

  People, Empowering, Hollywood

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• Changing the game is a mindset.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Games, Mindset

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• I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Horse, Art, Thinking

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• I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Thinking, Predator, Humans

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• The accidents are things that audiences always remember most, I've found on my own movies. The things that they like the most are the things that were just by accident. So you have to create a situation where nothing but accidents can happen the entire time.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Remember, Found, Situation

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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.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Thinking, People, Looks

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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

  Writing, Ideas, People

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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

  Real, Issues, Done

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

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• Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Data, Doe, Scientist

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• Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Children, Empowering, Support

  Interview with Brian Z., www.ign.com. July 25, 2003.

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