Robert Rodriguez Quotes

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I love working with great actors.

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.

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.

We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.

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.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

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

It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up -- so it's no longer a screw up.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

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

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

I definitely want to produce more because I have a bunch of projects that I've either written or half written and I want to continue developing them and if cant direct one right away cause I'm doing something else I will love to still see it get made.

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

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.

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

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

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.