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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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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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 -
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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The world is divided into three kinds of people: A very small group that makes things happen; a somewhat larger group that watches things happen; and a great multitude that never knows what has happened.
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy, Rush Limbaugh must go.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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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.
