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Robert Rodriguez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

I bet there's some other job out there that exists that I don't even know about because I don't know other jobs. So I looked up, you're going to believe it, but I literally bought jobs for dummies. Nice. It was just like, I don't even know what, I don't know what basic jobs are even out there. Turning the page. Oh yeah. Don't want that job. Don't want that job. Don't want that job.

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

I bet there's some other job out there that exists that I don't even know about because I don't know other jobs. So I looked up, you're going to believe it, but I literally bought jobs for dummies. Nice. It was just like, I don't even know what, I don't know what basic jobs are even out there. Turning the page. Oh yeah. Don't want that job. Don't want that job. Don't want that job.

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

I bet there's some other job out there that exists that I don't even know about because I don't know other jobs. So I looked up, you're going to believe it, but I literally bought jobs for dummies. Nice. It was just like, I don't even know what, I don't know what basic jobs are even out there. Turning the page. Oh yeah. Don't want that job. Don't want that job. Don't want that job.

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

I'm just going through. And it gets to filmmaker and there's a little icon behind each job. This icon is a guy like this. Literally, you look it up and it says, this is the best job ever. You get to just be creative with your friends, sit back, watch the money roll in, cross the desk. And I said, but 99% of film students don't get this job, so give up that dream.

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

I'm just going through. And it gets to filmmaker and there's a little icon behind each job. This icon is a guy like this. Literally, you look it up and it says, this is the best job ever. You get to just be creative with your friends, sit back, watch the money roll in, cross the desk. And I said, but 99% of film students don't get this job, so give up that dream.

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

I'm just going through. And it gets to filmmaker and there's a little icon behind each job. This icon is a guy like this. Literally, you look it up and it says, this is the best job ever. You get to just be creative with your friends, sit back, watch the money roll in, cross the desk. And I said, but 99% of film students don't get this job, so give up that dream.

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

So I was like, I guess I got the best job. But then I started working with my kids when we had a TV show called Rebel Without a Crew, based on that, where I found filmmakers who had only made a short film. They hadn't made a feature. I picked this diverse group of filmmakers. Gave him $7,000 and we documented them making a feature two weeks like I did.

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

So I was like, I guess I got the best job. But then I started working with my kids when we had a TV show called Rebel Without a Crew, based on that, where I found filmmakers who had only made a short film. They hadn't made a feature. I picked this diverse group of filmmakers. Gave him $7,000 and we documented them making a feature two weeks like I did.

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

So I was like, I guess I got the best job. But then I started working with my kids when we had a TV show called Rebel Without a Crew, based on that, where I found filmmakers who had only made a short film. They hadn't made a feature. I picked this diverse group of filmmakers. Gave him $7,000 and we documented them making a feature two weeks like I did.

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

You can bring one person, like I had Carlos Gaeta, the producer and star of Bariachi, bring one person. He can be your cameraman or he can be your sound guy or whatever, but it's only that for the shoot and you'd have to do the whole thing And I saw those guys. By the time they're like, I don't know how we're going to make this movie.

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

You can bring one person, like I had Carlos Gaeta, the producer and star of Bariachi, bring one person. He can be your cameraman or he can be your sound guy or whatever, but it's only that for the shoot and you'd have to do the whole thing And I saw those guys. By the time they're like, I don't know how we're going to make this movie.

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

You can bring one person, like I had Carlos Gaeta, the producer and star of Bariachi, bring one person. He can be your cameraman or he can be your sound guy or whatever, but it's only that for the shoot and you'd have to do the whole thing And I saw those guys. By the time they're like, I don't know how we're going to make this movie.

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

By the first week of shooting, they're already talking about their next feature. They became so confident because their idea of what impossible is drops really quick when you take it.

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

By the first week of shooting, they're already talking about their next feature. They became so confident because their idea of what impossible is drops really quick when you take it.

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

By the first week of shooting, they're already talking about their next feature. They became so confident because their idea of what impossible is drops really quick when you take it.

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

Yeah, so that's the one I did. So then it came time for me to do one. So I made a movie called Red 11 based on my experiences in the medical hospital, but I'll turn it into a sci-fi thriller just to use that as, so that I can use like somebody getting stabbed in the eye. So I'm still going to have more elements to show how you can do camera tricks and stuff with no money.

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

Yeah, so that's the one I did. So then it came time for me to do one. So I made a movie called Red 11 based on my experiences in the medical hospital, but I'll turn it into a sci-fi thriller just to use that as, so that I can use like somebody getting stabbed in the eye. So I'm still going to have more elements to show how you can do camera tricks and stuff with no money.

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

Yeah, so that's the one I did. So then it came time for me to do one. So I made a movie called Red 11 based on my experiences in the medical hospital, but I'll turn it into a sci-fi thriller just to use that as, so that I can use like somebody getting stabbed in the eye. So I'm still going to have more elements to show how you can do camera tricks and stuff with no money.

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

And the old days make it for less than $7,000, which I think we're like $5,000. Um, mainly because we had a lot of actors I wanted to pay. Um, but the movie itself can make it for nothing. Um, But I brought my son aboard as my number one, who hadn't been working with me in a while. I mean, he wrote Sharkboy and Lavagirl when he was seven, but then he hadn't really been working on my crew.

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

And the old days make it for less than $7,000, which I think we're like $5,000. Um, mainly because we had a lot of actors I wanted to pay. Um, but the movie itself can make it for nothing. Um, But I brought my son aboard as my number one, who hadn't been working with me in a while. I mean, he wrote Sharkboy and Lavagirl when he was seven, but then he hadn't really been working on my crew.