Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Rodriguez - Page 2

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.

There are real issues going on in just about any movie that's got fun elements to it.

A lot of 3D movies have so much on the screen that you almost don't know where to look.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

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.

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.

When you use the same actors a lot, you get to know them and you realize that one movie can't explore all the talent that they have. You really have to give them several different kinds of roles, in completely different movies, to push them and to push yourself.

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

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.

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.

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

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.

That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

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.

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even know what they were looking at. It's still visual storytelling, but it's approached completely different. The two mediums don't have to be separate mediums. They can be one and the same.

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

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.

I definitely want to produce more because I have a bunch of projects that I've either written or half written and I want to continue developing them and if cant direct one right away cause I'm doing something else I will love to still see it get made.

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.