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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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Robert Rodriguez
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 20
Camera Operator
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Film Producer
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Robert Anthony Rodríguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez
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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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Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
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There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.
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Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.
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If you want to be a rock star, you're not going to just walk on stage. You gotta go practice in the garage until your fingers bleed. I always say that - the same with writing and the same with filmmaking - if it's really your passion, you've just got to stick with it and do it.
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If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.
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A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.
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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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Sometimes a movie series that becomes popular can be a blessing and curse because you get known for that. People don't give you a chance, after that... I'm a big proponent of getting somebody that you always admire and giving them a chance to do something else because they can redefine themselves.
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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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The accidents are things that audiences always remember most, I've found on my own movies. The things that they like the most are the things that were just by accident. So you have to create a situation where nothing but accidents can happen the entire time.
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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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What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
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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.
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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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When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
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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 don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.
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Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
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