Quotes By Robert Rodriguez

When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

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.

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.

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

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.

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.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

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

I collect a lot of art.

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

I love working with great actors.

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

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

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

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.

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

Changing the game is a mindset.

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.

The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

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.

Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.