Quotes By Robert Rodriguez

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.