156 Quotes by Robert Rodriguez

People don’t live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don’t try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

Don’t give me any money, don’t give me any people, but give freedom, and I’ll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that’s what Hollywood’s like. It’s a little block, little town. It doesn’t really grow or change.

When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That’s how they were always done.

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.

I have so many friends who don’t know how to cook.

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.

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can’t really be solved another way.