Quotes by Robert Rodriguez

About Robert Rodriguez:

Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, cartoonist and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in Mexico and Texas, his home state. He has directed successful and groundbreaking film sagas such as the Mexico Trilogy (consisting of El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico), From Dusk till Dawn and the 2014 TV series, and the Spy Kids films, as well as The Faculty, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, Sin City, Planet Terror and Machete. He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. In December 2013, Rodriguez launched his own cable television channel, El Rey.
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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.

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

I collect a lot of art.

Robert Rodriguez

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

Robert Rodriguez

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

Robert Rodriguez

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

Changing the game is a mindset.

Robert Rodriguez

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.

Robert Rodriguez

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.

Robert Rodriguez

It's such a drag to make a movie.

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country.

Robert Rodriguez

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

Robert Rodriguez

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Rodriguez
  • DescriptionAmerican film director and producer
  • BornJune 20, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Film Producer; Screenwriter; Musician; Camera Operator; Composer