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Robert Rodriguez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3500 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

Shit, you should be the bad guy in my movie. And it'd be cool to have you as the bad guy. He goes, but I don't speak Spanish. Well, that's okay. All right. And I'll teach you phonetically. And you're going to wear sunglasses. And if you look close, he's holding the,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

Shit, you should be the bad guy in my movie. And it'd be cool to have you as the bad guy. He goes, but I don't speak Spanish. Well, that's okay. All right. And I'll teach you phonetically. And you're going to wear sunglasses. And if you look close, he's holding the,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

he's holding the lines here and he's looking at the lines like that and just smiling so i can't believe he's getting away with this he's smiling and he's got the sunglasses on i read that somewhere in the pool there's like a scene in the pool he's like this with the sunglasses on with an oh man but but he was doing it phonetically and i tell you what he was so great that guy right yeah when we do desperado i brought him back

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

he's holding the lines here and he's looking at the lines like that and just smiling so i can't believe he's getting away with this he's smiling and he's got the sunglasses on i read that somewhere in the pool there's like a scene in the pool he's like this with the sunglasses on with an oh man but but he was doing it phonetically and i tell you what he was so great that guy right yeah when we do desperado i brought him back

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

he's holding the lines here and he's looking at the lines like that and just smiling so i can't believe he's getting away with this he's smiling and he's got the sunglasses on i read that somewhere in the pool there's like a scene in the pool he's like this with the sunglasses on with an oh man but but he was doing it phonetically and i tell you what he was so great that guy right yeah when we do desperado i brought him back

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

Didn't even have to do any dialogue. Watch that movie. When he shows up in the opening scene, when Desperado, he's playing the guitar in the opening with the credits to tie it into the first movie, he shows up again. And all he has to do is light a cigarette and you see this. He's so nervous because now there's a crew behind me. Now it's real.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

Didn't even have to do any dialogue. Watch that movie. When he shows up in the opening scene, when Desperado, he's playing the guitar in the opening with the credits to tie it into the first movie, he shows up again. And all he has to do is light a cigarette and you see this. He's so nervous because now there's a crew behind me. Now it's real.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

Didn't even have to do any dialogue. Watch that movie. When he shows up in the opening scene, when Desperado, he's playing the guitar in the opening with the credits to tie it into the first movie, he shows up again. And all he has to do is light a cigarette and you see this. He's so nervous because now there's a crew behind me. Now it's real.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

Before it was just me and him and it didn't feel like a real movie. So everyone gave a great performance. So how do you recreate that later on a big movie? is just building a report, making a safe zone for your actors. Quentin once told me, sometimes being, you know, we're talking about directing, he goes, yeah, sometimes being a great director is just being a great audience.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

Before it was just me and him and it didn't feel like a real movie. So everyone gave a great performance. So how do you recreate that later on a big movie? is just building a report, making a safe zone for your actors. Quentin once told me, sometimes being, you know, we're talking about directing, he goes, yeah, sometimes being a great director is just being a great audience.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

Before it was just me and him and it didn't feel like a real movie. So everyone gave a great performance. So how do you recreate that later on a big movie? is just building a report, making a safe zone for your actors. Quentin once told me, sometimes being, you know, we're talking about directing, he goes, yeah, sometimes being a great director is just being a great audience.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

You know, being a great audience for the, because you're taking the place of the audience for the actor. They try something, and if you're enjoying it, they know that the audience is going to enjoy it. Or if you're, you know, makes you cry, you know, so sometimes you just, you don't have to tell them a lot sometimes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

You know, being a great audience for the, because you're taking the place of the audience for the actor. They try something, and if you're enjoying it, they know that the audience is going to enjoy it. Or if you're, you know, makes you cry, you know, so sometimes you just, you don't have to tell them a lot sometimes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

You know, being a great audience for the, because you're taking the place of the audience for the actor. They try something, and if you're enjoying it, they know that the audience is going to enjoy it. Or if you're, you know, makes you cry, you know, so sometimes you just, you don't have to tell them a lot sometimes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

And if you do have something very specific to tell them, they usually, you know, go with it. But I always just like to see what they do. And a lot of times they just are in the zone because again, they're getting that flow too. You create the right environment, everyone's getting this inspiration that's all tied together that you never could have directed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

And if you do have something very specific to tell them, they usually, you know, go with it. But I always just like to see what they do. And a lot of times they just are in the zone because again, they're getting that flow too. You create the right environment, everyone's getting this inspiration that's all tied together that you never could have directed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

And if you do have something very specific to tell them, they usually, you know, go with it. But I always just like to see what they do. And a lot of times they just are in the zone because again, they're getting that flow too. You create the right environment, everyone's getting this inspiration that's all tied together that you never could have directed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

It's just like, you just create that space where we're all going to be open to it and it's going to drop in our lap. And I'm going to point it out when it does. Because you may not feel like you know how to play this role yet, but I say not knowing is the other half of the battle and the more important part. That's the part we're going to discover.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

It's just like, you just create that space where we're all going to be open to it and it's going to drop in our lap. And I'm going to point it out when it does. Because you may not feel like you know how to play this role yet, but I say not knowing is the other half of the battle and the more important part. That's the part we're going to discover.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

It's just like, you just create that space where we're all going to be open to it and it's going to drop in our lap. And I'm going to point it out when it does. Because you may not feel like you know how to play this role yet, but I say not knowing is the other half of the battle and the more important part. That's the part we're going to discover.