Robert Rodriguez's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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!

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.

Changing the game is a mindset.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I collect a lot of art.

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

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

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

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

I kind of like working fast.