Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

All your dreams can come true. It s not easy but not impossible either.

Would Revolver have become the album toward which every superlative was hurled had it been released under the same conditions that Sgt. Pepper was? Without a doubt.

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

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.

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

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

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.