#con

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#better #constantly #continue #goes #idea

The concern we have is that if somebody from our side gets captured they are going to get their throats slit. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#concern #get #gets #going #our

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#authorized #between #buried #cia #conducting

It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#being #big #board #came #connected

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#anything #content #create #empower #everything

I get a lot done considering I spend half my day sleeping. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#day #done #get #half #i

I have 5 children of my own. They are bilingual, like most second and third generations. But they speak primarily in English and they couldn't find anything on television that represented who they are in this country. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#bilingual #children #country #english #find

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.' ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#cartoon #commercials #continue #did #family

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#everything #familiar #marketing #now #reaching

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#agree #before #clean #clean water #coast