Robert Rodriguez People Quotations

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

A lot of people who watch DVDs are people who are interested in, if not moviemaking, then creativity in general.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

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

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

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

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.

We're trying to wake up the little giant that we have here in Gilroy. We want people to know who we are.

There's nothing like having lost money -- you need to go through adversity to be tested and you need to face it on several occasions to find out who you truly are. At our firm, we'd rather have people make their mistakes somewhere else.

AMD fuels us so we can move at the speed of thought. My philosophy is less people, really talented and focused people and really great equipment. It sounds backwards but we can do more. Using the AMD64 machines, I can feel the difference. There's no lag time.

These people have done it over four or five decades. It means they've had to deal with many challenges.

I'm not looking for the stock market to do much of anything till the end of the year. We're getting into the darker stages of the bear market. People will be very shocked at how cheap stocks can become.

I don't like having two versions (of a DVD). People will buy the first one and not buy the second, and that's the one I want them to see.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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