Quotes from 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.

Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.

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

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

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

Changing the game is a mindset.

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

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

I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on.

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

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

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.

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

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

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

I collect a lot of art.

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

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 studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

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

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

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.