Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in Mexico and his home state, Texas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth20 June 1968
CitySan Antonio, TX
CountryUnited States of America
should-have should like-something
For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.
made-up-stories done world
Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
running moving issues
Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.
thinking people growth
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.
data doe scientist
Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.
thinking tv-shows tvs
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.
agents steps actors
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.
eye waste six
That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
drag
It's such a drag to make a movie.
actors great-actors
I love working with great actors.
half want causes
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.
writing mind life-experience
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
two people different
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.
blessing giving people
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.