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.

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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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Important
  • Best

• This was just one of many times God has spared me.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • God
  • Me
  • Times

• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Feel
  • Husband
  • Debate

• It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Path

• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Like
  • Eating

• I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Faith

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Blame

• I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Day
  • Amazing

• I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Long
  • Traditions
  • Culinary

• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Family
  • Myself
  • Forty

• I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Learn
  • Movies

• When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Write

• My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Band
  • Approach

• 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.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • School
  • Drama
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • Me
  • Magic

• To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Help
  • Future
  • Sea

• I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Children
  • Family
  • Massive

• Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Film
  • Process
  • Watching

• Some people will always be animals, while the others want to be... people.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • People
  • Animals
  • To Be

• I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.

  

  Karen Allen
  • People
  • Up
  • Sweet

• Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Democracy

• Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone who sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're selling. Think for yourself, and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet.

  

  Geoff Tate
  • Thinking
  • Yourself
  • Selling

• Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Trying
  • Film
  • Fantastic