American - Director | June 20, 1968 -
Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
Robert Rodriguez
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Yeah, I was always a big fan of noir.
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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.
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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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I kind of like working fast.
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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.
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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 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.
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People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.
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For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.
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If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.
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