Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in Mexico and his home state, Texas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 June 1968
CitySan Antonio, TX
CountryUnited States of America
giving people looks
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.
strong-women strong models
I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
art
I collect a lot of art.
growing-up kids wish
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.
should-have should like-something
For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.
finance fund studios
The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.
design-work knowing stories
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.
art technology ideas
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.
hollywood tough process
Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
block school home
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.
looks screens knows
A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
technology people creative
Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
thinking people looks
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.
thinking predator humans
I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.