Words matter. These are the best Robert Rodriguez Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That’s how they were always done.
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.
I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
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!
Sometimes I feel like I’m in a dream world, because it doesn’t always seem too logical how things work out.
I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A ‘Sin City’ while I’m doing a ‘Spy Kids’ at the same time. I need different things going on.
Everyone applauds each other’s success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
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.
I have so many friends who don’t know how to cook.
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.
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.
The studios don’t finance anymore, they get outside funds.
Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.
The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.
It’s such a drag to make a movie.
I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I’ve just grown up with that model.
You create superheroes to take care of problems that can’t really be solved another way.
For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn’t.
If I’m excited about it, I’m pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I’m bored with an idea, you can bet they’re going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I’m fairly excited about.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything I’ve done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
Changing the game is a mindset.
I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.
I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.
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.
Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
