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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.

Robert Rodriguez

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Robert Rodriguez
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 20
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Robert Anthony Rodríguez
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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.
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A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.
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I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
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Very few people have a lot of time to dedicate to one hobby. I was fortunate to have started so young, because when you're young you have nothing but time. Hours and hours to burn up on something as silly as a movie.
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Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
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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.
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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.
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Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.
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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.
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I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
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Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.
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I definitely want to produce more because I have a bunch of projects that I've either written or half written and I want to continue developing them and if cant direct one right away cause I'm doing something else I will love to still see it get made.
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A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
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Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.
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Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.
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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.
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You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
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I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
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Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
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Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
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