Robert Rodriguez Quotes
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.
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I love doing kids' films.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.
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That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
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You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.
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I love film; I'd love to do as many films as possible.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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What fuels me is that there are a lot of people coming to Broadway and to the show Aladdin for the first time. Lots of kids and lots of adults and it's usually the kids were it's a special moment for them.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.
