Chingon Quotes
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Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
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All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.
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I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.
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If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
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People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
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A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.
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Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.
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I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
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If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.
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When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
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Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie.
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If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.
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I kind of like working fast.
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Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.
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We Rodriguez and Frank Miller wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.
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I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.
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Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.
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The accidents are things that audiences always remember most, I've found on my own movies. The things that they like the most are the things that were just by accident. So you have to create a situation where nothing but accidents can happen the entire time.
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You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.
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You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
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I collect a lot of art.
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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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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.