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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.

Robert Rodriguez

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Robert Rodriguez
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 20
Camera Operator
Cinematographer
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Musician
Screenwriter
Military City
USA
Robert Anthony Rodríguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez
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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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I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.
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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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Changing the game is a mindset.
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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.
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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.'
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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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A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
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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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You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
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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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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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I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
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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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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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I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.
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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.
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When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
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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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