Quotes By Robert Rodriguez

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.

When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.'

Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.

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

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

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.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

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

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.

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

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.

I kind of like working fast.

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

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.

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.

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.