Robert Rodriguez Quotes

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

I'm a big believer in creating parameters for creativity. I think parameters make people more creative. So that starts with my budgets. I only do low budget movies, and I think that makes the movies better.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

I don't necessarily think that having more money helps make you make a better film. Sometimes having less money is better. You're forced into being more original; you're forced into hearing something versus seeing it.

I think that I, because of student government and because of working in Baltimore, knew how to be creative with very little resources.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

I don't choose to make low-budget films. But that is the reality of surviving in the Japanese film industry. However, the trade off is, since we're working on small budgets, we have freedom. You can't buy this freedom with money. With this freedom, I think there are an infinite number of possibilities.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.