Robert Rodriguez Quotes

I have zero strategy for my career - like, zero. I could get as much satisfaction about doing a $20,000 shot film the same way I could do a $100 million film with a bunch of effects.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we're able to do that because we really stick to low budgets.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I had thirty weeks of prep on 'Captain America.' I have a small team of qualified, supportive, creative producers who are actually helping me achieve my vision of the film. I had a dream cast headed by Chris Evans. I had the best designers, artists, sculptors, craftspeople.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

There are so many things that go into a movie that it's amazing that anything gets made anyway.

After you shoot a day's work, you gotta see rushes, and then you have more meetings with the budgets, with your producers, with your designers. It's never-ending.

I have been working on one film at a time. One film recovers a little cost and that helps me move on to the next one.

I would love to make a kids' movie. But they are very hard to make.

It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.

I try not to shoot unnecessarily or spend on extra expenses that normally happen on a film set - like actors' fees.

The first thing I control is the cost by not shooting for many days. It is not control, but somebody has to drive the whole thing. If I shoot unnecessary things, it will raise cost.

When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually led to commercials.

Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about time. We always try to conceive all of our action from a place of, "What can we shoot that looks fantastic?," rather than trying to do the kinds of thing that you would be able to accomplish in a movie.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.

One of the things that I do like about filmmaking is that you find out how to solve new problems.

I get rewarded virtually every day with something amazing to see - whether it's a new shot, a miniature sweater, someone who's figured out how to make the hair look really great. We found a way to do the rain, finally. And mud. Make the trees. So I get to stay in constant motion as a director, you know, reviewing things. And there's a lot to review.