Robert Rodriguez Quotes

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

We want to see ourselves - but differently. We want to see these dream versions of ourselves. We want to be surprised; we want to be entertained. I think primarily, especially in this country, we ask that movies entertain us, which seems to be something they're less and less likely to do on a continual basis.

I love cinema and creating new things, but essentially, I am creating all this because I want people to see it.

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

The wonderful thing about cinema is you can bring a 3D world to life.

I want to do films that provide entertainment, but are also content-driven.

That's what I love about movies and TV: You can go anywhere any time and be whoever you want.