Robert Rodriguez quotes

“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!”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels. ”

— Robert Rodriguez

“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.”

— 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

“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

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

— Robert Rodriguez

“I love working with great actors.”

— Robert Rodriguez

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

— Robert Rodriguez

“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.”

— Robert Rodriguez

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

— Robert Rodriguez

“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.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“I collect a lot of art.”

— Robert Rodriguez

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

— Robert Rodriguez

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

— Robert Rodriguez

“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.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“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.”

— Robert Rodriguez

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

— Robert Rodriguez