#si

Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night! ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#music #dreams

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#around #because #buck #changing #could

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#grown #i #i do #just #like

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 usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A 'Sin City' while I'm doing a 'Spy Kids' at the same time. I need different things going on. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#couple #different #different things #doing #going

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#cartoonist #could #decided #design #doing

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

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#finance #funds #get #outside #studios

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#core #i #i think #just #likes