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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
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When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.
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Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.
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I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies.
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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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You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.
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