Robert Rodriguez

“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.”

“Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.”

“I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping.”

“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.”

“People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.”

“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.”

“I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.”

“It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.”

“It's such a drag to make a movie.”

“If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.”

“I kind of like working fast.”

“I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on.”

“Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.”

“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.”

“The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.”

“The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.”

“If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.”

“I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.”

“I love working with great actors.”

“People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.”