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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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Robert Rodriguez
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 20
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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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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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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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Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.
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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 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.
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Changing the game is a mindset.
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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 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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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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Really, children will support anything that is empowering to them.
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Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.
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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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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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I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.
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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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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 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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Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
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