Quotes By Robert Rodriguez

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

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.'

It's such a drag to make a movie.

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

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

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

I love working with great actors.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

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.