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.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

Too many creative people don't wanna learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people. Become technical. You can learn that. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

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.

If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.

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

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.

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.

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.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

Changing the game is a mindset.

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.

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

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.

The accidents are things that audiences always remember most, I've found on my own movies. The things that they like the most are the things that were just by accident. So you have to create a situation where nothing but accidents can happen the entire time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

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.

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

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

When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all the talent that they have. You really have to give them several different kinds of roles, in completely different movies, to push them and to push yourself.

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

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

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.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie.

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 want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

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

I collect a lot of art.

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

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

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

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

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