Robert Rodriguez Quotes
It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up -- so it's no longer a screw up.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I am pretty self-indulgent.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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I love how much love there is in the world of young adult and children's literature.
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The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
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If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
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I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
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It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up -- so it's no longer a screw up.
