Robert Rodriguez Quotes

• I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

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• I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: ‘You can go work outside of the house and I’ll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I’ll make some commercials nearby, you know I’ll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.’

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• I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

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• 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.

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• I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

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• I love working with great actors.

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• 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.

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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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• I kind of like working fast.

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• I have so many friends who don’t know how to cook.

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

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• I don’t think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

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

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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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• For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn’t.

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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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• Everything I’ve done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

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

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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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Robert Rodriguez (53)

Birth:	20th June, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Editor, Musician, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet Terror, and Machete. He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

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