Quotes By Robert Rodriguez

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

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

I kind of like working fast.

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.

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

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.