Robert Rodriguez Quotes

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.
Robert Rodriguez

Life, Change, Home

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.
Robert Rodriguez

Music, Trying, Idea

Changing the game is a mindset.
Robert Rodriguez

Game, Mindset, Changing

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
Robert Rodriguez

Technology, Creative, Adopt

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.
Robert Rodriguez

Corruption, Talk, Between

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.
Robert Rodriguez

Work, Sometimes, Dream

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
Robert Rodriguez

Care, Problems, Another

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.
Robert Rodriguez

Creativity, Interested, General

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
Robert Rodriguez

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.
Robert Rodriguez

Money, Freedom, Give

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.
Robert Rodriguez

Dead, Fresh, Imitate

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
Robert Rodriguez

Success, Down, Tough

Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
Robert Rodriguez

Everything, Done, Made

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.
Robert Rodriguez

Famous, Give, Around

For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.
Robert Rodriguez

Existed, Seemed

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.
Robert Rodriguez

Great, Best, Movies

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.
Robert Rodriguez

Everything, Create, Wants

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
Robert Rodriguez

Art, Movies, Dad

I collect a lot of art.
Robert Rodriguez

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
Robert Rodriguez

Women, Movies, Strong

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.
Robert Rodriguez

Human, Anyone, Predator

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
Robert Rodriguez

Done, Sleeping, Half

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.
Robert Rodriguez

Children, Country, Find

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.
Robert Rodriguez

I kind of like working fast.
Robert Rodriguez

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 20, 1968

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