Quotes By Robert Rodriguez

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

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.

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.

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

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

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

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.

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.

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

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.

I collect a lot of art.

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

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

I kind of like working fast.

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.

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.

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

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.

When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.

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.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

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!

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

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.

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.

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.

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

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.

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.