Robert Rodriguez Quotes (34 Quotes)

I've always felt like I've been wagging the tail of the big technology dog, to see what I could get it to do. Since I started using AMD64 technology, the technology is now wagging me, to see what I can do with it. AMD LIVE Fulfils the final dream, by delivering the goods as originally imagined by the artist.

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.

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.

When I was little, he was the one that pushed me and now that I am older, I now push myself a lot. And he has taught me a lot about boxing stuff, too.

There's nothing like having lost money -- you need to go through adversity to be tested and you need to face it on several occasions to find out who you truly are. At our firm, we'd rather have people make their mistakes somewhere else.

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.

I looked up and saw him walking toward me, ... I ducked my head and started looking at the floor. I thought, 'He'll have to tap me on the shoulder if he wants my attention.' Then I heard him call the other guy. I took a deep breath and let it go.

Leonard Bernstein was a true American hero, ... He could do anything. He was a composer, a conductor and a concert pianist.

The Texas-born filmmaker revealed that he's currently holed up at Tarantino's Los Angeles abode, and they're working both together and separately. I'm at his house now writing it, ... probably in the fall ... They're two different movies, but he reads me stuff and I tell him stuff that I do.

We're trying to wake up the little giant that we have here in Gilroy. We want people to know who we are.

I teach them exactly what they taught me in the camp, which is to box and not a lot of brawling. Just hit and move, basic boxing.

Ive been drawing since I was a young kid, ... I just had the passion to draw, so I kept at it. I want people to enjoy my art.

AMD fuels us so we can move at the speed of thought. My philosophy is less people, really talented and focused people and really great equipment. It sounds backwards but we can do more. Using the AMD64 machines, I can feel the difference. There's no lag time.

I'm not looking for the stock market to do much of anything till the end of the year. We're getting into the darker stages of the bear market. People will be very shocked at how cheap stocks can become.

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 try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot,

The camp that argued deflation has been proven wrong, ... They (inflation-indexed bonds) provide a competitive return with less volatility ... We have been in a period of much reduced returns in stocks. Going forward I think equity returns on average would migrate more to 7 percent levels. This would be a conservative alternative.

You're talking to a small- to medium-cap value manager, and that manager is becoming a dinosaur. What we do in our Capital Fund or the New Income Fund is a function of our discipline.

My father did not want us to have an accent. It was a different era than it is today, where having a second language is a competitive advantage.

It's disappointing, ... They said it was strictly a numbers thing. My agent is now talking to other teams to see if I can head somewhere else.

(Bernstein's) music continues to be loved by all kinds of audiences, ... So get your tickets early. Our concert is going to be packed.

It is time to give this country back to its rightful owners, the American people. I believe that together we can make our nation great again and restore the American dream for all.

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

I have all the creative freedom of someone making a home movie, but I get to do it on a larger scale. It's the best.

If everyone was going to jump on board after the business side of things were taken care of, I would be delighted to do it,

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

It's cost me and my firm a lot of money. But rapid growth leads to poor decision making.

It's a way of bridging the gap between the sexes, income strata and even management levels, to a degree.

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.

We're still writing the script to see if there's enough for a third one, or if we're just going to do a second one, ... We're supposed to shoot in January, but we might do it earlier if we keep working at this clip.

This is one of those periods of time where you can have two different styles at an intersection. This year could be a crossroads.

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.

There is a real balance between risk and return in racing. Inside the cockpit, when everything is very quiet, very smooth, you get your fastest time. In investing, if you are easily distracted and let your emotions get the best of you, you end up making decisions that are sub-optimal.

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.