Robert Rodriguez Quotes

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.

You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.

Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.

There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.

I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.

If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

I like an interesting movie even if it's controversial or offensive, depending on your taste.

I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.

I make the kind of music I like.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

Just make games for yourself and try to have a critical eye to what you do. If you genuinely like the game, there will be other people who like it as well.

Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

I'm only worried about what I'm doing or how I present music. I just try to do things I want to listen to, and I think that's what everybody else is try doing, too.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

Everyone wants to do only those films which they find interesting. That is the way the industry works.

There will always be some films that the audience would like and some that they don't. But if I start becoming a slave to appreciation, I will be subjecting myself and my talent to one particular type of taste. I don't want to do that.

I just make music that I love. I'm kind of selfish when I make music. I'm like, 'Do I like this?'