Robert Rodriguez Quotes

I just love all the details about movies, and it's fun to be involved in everything. I just love it. It's just a little added fun thing to be consulted about stuff.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.

I've heard people say that 'The Blair Witch Project' is a feminist movie because there's a woman in charge and I've heard it called a completely anti-feminist movie because this woman screws everything up. Who cares really? It's just a movie.

I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books - and now we have a book out. And all the time, books are prestigious. But there's sort of nothing like having the big hot show on television.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.

'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.

'Star Wars' is life, but 'Star Wars' is also not very good, which is why 'Rogue One' - a Frankenstein's monster assembled from a butchered first cut and an excessively large space antenna that only exists to add another 30 minutes to the film - is one of the better 'Star Wars' movies.

While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.

Pop life Everybody needs a thrill Pop life We all got a space 2 fill Pop life Everybody can't be on top But life it ain't real funky Unless it's got that pop Dig it.

I like silly stuff, too. I like the 'Twilight' series. That was fun.

You can see with the proliferation of magazines, you know, that just focus entirely on that. So it just - it seems like there (was) a lot of fodder and a lot of stories and fun things to poke fun at and highlight.

Pauline Kael had seen Nashville, and she loved Nashville. When I called her, she immediately responded to me because we had become friends, and I told her how great this film was, and she told me, "Well, I'll have to see it for myself." So I showed it to her, and she flipped.

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

Pop music is great, but there's a lot of BS about the attitude of guys being super-gangster - that's why the whole thing is silly. It's making fun of itself. That self-awareness is why people enjoy it. It's refreshing.

Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.