Robert Rodriguez Quotes

Being part of 'Natural Nylon' is a great way to have an influence on the films that get out there. I love films and it gives me an input.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.

It's the people that ultimately are less talented or have less confidence in what they're doing that then try to micro-manage, which lends itself to a less than ideal film.

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

I am trying my best to stay above the water. Right now ACID does not only offer animation. I offer real life productions as well and also compositing (animation composited into real life video)

It doesn't matter whether you shoot on celluloid or on digital, you better make a good film.

I think the moment you try to make a movie for kids, you make garbage.

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

People ask me, "Why do you love making films?" and I always say, "Because I love film." I hope that I can call myself a movie buff.

I like stories that begin with characters. I like to be engaged and moved by the characters in the story. I want to be moved. I want to leave the cinema and think about what I've seen. My sensibility is quite eclectic and it doesn't matter if they are small or large films, I just want to make good films.

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

When you are on the set, you have different departments - you got camera, sound, props, hair, makeup, catering, executives. Imagine each one of those are spokes on the wagon wheel. All the spokes come into a hub: the hub is the director. The wood the spokes go into are distribution and promotion; the steel wheel around the hub is the film. None of these have anything in common with each other.

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.

You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that you can find. If you don't start with that then it sort of defies the whole purpose of trying to make the best film that you can make.

I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.

I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.