"Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it."

“When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.”

Source : "Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo Interview MACHETE". Press conference, collider.com. August 29, 2010.

“I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.”

“On another level this film talks about that. We had tremendous freedom while making this film. We never thought about marketing. It wasn't a film made to sell merchandise or products or to reach millions of people around the world. It was a film made to say what I really felt.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.”

“Usually I bring very attractive women with me to excite interest. I mean, it's a type of, like, strangers-with-candy situation.”

“As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.”

“Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.”

“You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.