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I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.

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Robert Rodriguez
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 20
Camera Operator
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Robert Anthony Rodríguez
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Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
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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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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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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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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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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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A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.
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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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Any time you do action and horror, you've always got to try to find a way to make it fresh for the audience, but also for yourself, and there are so many different ways to freak people out and create tension.
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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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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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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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I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
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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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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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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 realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.
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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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You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
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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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