Quotes By Robert Rodriguez

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

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

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.

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

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.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

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.

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

I collect a lot of art.

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

I love working with great actors.

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

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

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.

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.

Changing the game is a mindset.

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.

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

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

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

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.

When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

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.

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

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.

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

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.

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.