Robert Rodriguez

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

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.'

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.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

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.

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

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

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.

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

I kind of like working fast.