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
thinking tv-shows tvs
If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.
thinking people growth
I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.
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.
thinking creative use
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.
art horse thinking
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.
advantage emotional irrational
We try to take advantage of other investors' emotional or irrational reactions.
american-director ask budgets less money strip though
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.
audiences concert continues kinds loved music tickets
(Bernstein's) music continues to be loved by all kinds of audiences, ... So get your tickets early. Our concert is going to be packed.
couple projects time
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.
delivering felt final goods imagined originally since tail technology using
I've always felt like I've been wagging the tail of the big technology dog, to see what I could get it to do. Since I started using AMD64 technology, the technology is now wagging me, to see what I can do with it. AMD LIVE! Fulfils the final dream, by delivering the goods as originally imagined by the artist.
adversity face lost mistakes money occasions people rather several somewhere tested truly
There's nothing like having lost money -- you need to go through adversity to be tested and you need to face it on several occasions to find out who you truly are. At our firm, we'd rather have people make their mistakes somewhere else.
kids
I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.
basic box exactly hit taught teach
I teach them exactly what they taught me in the camp, which is to box and not a lot of brawling. Just hit and move, basic boxing.