Robert Rodriguez Quotes
Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.
Quotes to Explore
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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The 35mm camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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The process of starting up a new film is one of looking through a lot of material and trying to find something you really like. And it does sometimes take a minute.
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I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.
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The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
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Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.
