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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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
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For those of you that don't know, the reason I named my album 'Free TC' is because my lil' brother is named TC. He's locked up for something that he didn't do, and what I'm trying to do is just raise awareness around the whole mass incarceration thing going on in our country, especially with our people.
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Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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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.
