Robert Rodriguez
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"Robert Anthony Rodríguez" is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, Film editing#Film editor/editor cartoonist and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in Mexico and his native Texas. He has directed successful and groundbreaking film sagas such as the Mexico Trilogy, From Dusk till Dawn and the 2014 From Dusk till Dawn: The Series/TV series, and the Spy Kids (franchise)/Spy Kids films, as well as The Faculty, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, Sin City (film)/Sin City, Planet Terror, and Machete (film)/Machete. He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. In December 2013, Rodriguez launched his own cable TV channel, El Rey (network)/El Rey.

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I hope to have more control over that in the future.

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl in 3-D.

I perceived the need for safer products. People want safer things in their homes.

I don't like having two versions (of a DVD). People will buy the first one and not buy the second, and that's the one I want them to see.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

The challenge is what was making it exciting. You don't want to do anything that's too easy or that you know that you can pull off, otherwise it's really not worth doing.

Because I can sell directly from my computer, it's possible for a guy like me to work in this industry.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

Even though I can make my own budgets, I always ask for less money than we need so that you have to be more creative, you have to strip it down.

You'll click a button and get to hear the Austin audience reacting to the film for the first time. You'll hear what took them by surprise, made them gasp. It's gonna be really cool.