Robert Rodriguez Quotes

Even though I can make my own budgets, I always ask for less money than we need so that you have to be more creative, you have to strip it down.

The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D.

We're still writing the script to see if there's enough for a third one, or if we're just going to do a second one, ... We're supposed to shoot in January, but we might do it earlier if we keep working at this clip.

I looked up and saw him walking toward me, ... I ducked my head and started looking at the floor. I thought, 'He'll have to tap me on the shoulder if he wants my attention.' Then I heard him call the other guy. I took a deep breath and let it go.

I have all the creative freedom of someone making a home movie, but I get to do it on a larger scale. It's the best.

They have the necessary abundance of food and the non-disturbance they need to breed, to procreate and to thrive in this area.

We've focused on retailers that we would call 'category killers,'.

My father did not want us to have an accent. It was a different era than it is today, where having a second language is a competitive advantage.

You're talking to a small- to medium-cap value manager, and that manager is becoming a dinosaur. What we do in our Capital Fund or the New Income Fund is a function of our discipline.

I like things that are getting trashed, hated.

It's a way of bridging the gap between the sexes, income strata and even management levels, to a degree.

It's more of a psychological event than an economic event.

[The Texas-born filmmaker revealed that he's currently holed up at Tarantino's Los Angeles abode, and they're working both together and separately.] I'm at his house now writing it, ... probably in the fall ... They're two different movies, but he reads me stuff and I tell him stuff that I do.