Quotes By Robert Rodriguez

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 want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

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.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

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.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

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

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.

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.