Robert Rodriguez Quotes

If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

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

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

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

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.

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

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

Changing the game is a mindset.

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.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

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

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

There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.

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

A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.

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 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.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

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

I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

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

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

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

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

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

I collect a lot of art.

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

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

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.

That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

I love working with great actors.

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

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

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

I kind of like working fast.

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.

Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

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