156 Quotes by Robert Rodriguez

It’s easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up – so it’s no longer a screw up.

For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn’t.

If you’re just creative, you’ll always have to rely on technical people. If you’re creative and technical, you’re unstoppable.

Don’t be told something is impossible. There’s always a way.

I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I’m working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels.

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.

Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn’t a very good writer.

Everything I’ve done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.

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.