Robert Rodriguez Quotes
Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
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My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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I want to have a normal high-school experience.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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People who know me know that I'm not going to open my mouth and say something if I don't mean it. I'm very short and sweet. I'm old-school when it comes to it: I say what I mean and mean what I say, and then get off of it. It's simple as that.
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Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way.
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The only honest reaction and true loyalty that we get is from our animals.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.
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Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.
