Robert Rodriguez Quotes

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.

I don't do storyboarding, ever; I'm not interested in that.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

I love filmmakers.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was four years old. And what was always important was writing, writing, writing.

I had been trying to make movies, but they were really hard to get made. TV wound up, by surprise, a much more fulfilling place to work. That said, I've always been drawn to make movies.

I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember.

Movie-making is a very creative medium of expression.

I make movies on the subjects that excite me.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.