Robert Rodriguez Quotes
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I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels.
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The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.
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When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.
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Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.
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Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.
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It lighting the set up is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.
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Too many creative people don't wanna learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people. Become technical. You can learn that. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.
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It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.
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There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.
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I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
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Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.
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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.
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What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
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I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.
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When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
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For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.
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Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
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Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.
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I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.
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What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
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If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
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Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.
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That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
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A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.