Robert Rodriguez Quotes

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

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

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

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

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.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.

Too many creative people don't wanna learn how to be technical, so what happens? They become dependent on technical people. Become technical. You can learn that. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

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

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.

When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

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

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

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.

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.

Changing the game is a mindset.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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