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
creative freedom home larger
I have all the creative freedom of someone making a home movie, but I get to do it on a larger scale. It's the best.
growing-up kids home
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.'
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.
art dad home
I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
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These people have done it over four or five decades. It means they've had to deal with many challenges.
exactly felt growing knew lifted practice special weeks weight
Once it happened, I had a better practice in the afternoon. I'm growing more and more comfortable as the weeks have progressed. It was probably my most comfortable practice. I knew exactly what I was doing (on) special teams, so I went after it. It felt like a weight was lifted off of my shoulders.
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I'm not looking for the stock market to do much of anything till the end of the year. We're getting into the darker stages of the bear market. People will be very shocked at how cheap stocks can become.
control hope
I hope to have more control over that in the future.
I like things that are getting trashed, hated.
agent head numbers somewhere strictly talking teams
It's disappointing, ... They said it was strictly a numbers thing. My agent is now talking to other teams to see if I can head somewhere else.
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It's cost me and my firm a lot of money. But rapid growth leads to poor decision making.
bullish means taught
It taught me what it means to be bullish and bearish.
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We try to take advantage of other investors' emotional or irrational reactions.
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Even though I can make my own budgets, I always ask for less money than we need so that you have to be more creative, you have to strip it down.