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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

And they said, we have a problem. You want them to throw the cards out, the playing cards out, but it's so slick. They go sliding off the table. And we both look at it and we both got the solution at the same time. Oh, we just have them throw them wherever they go. And then we'll place them.

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

And they said, we have a problem. You want them to throw the cards out, the playing cards out, but it's so slick. They go sliding off the table. And we both look at it and we both got the solution at the same time. Oh, we just have them throw them wherever they go. And then we'll place them.

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

And they said, we have a problem. You want them to throw the cards out, the playing cards out, but it's so slick. They go sliding off the table. And we both look at it and we both got the solution at the same time. Oh, we just have them throw them wherever they go. And then we'll place them.

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

And then digitally, it's even better that he looks like he gets them all perfectly laid out to show what a card shark is. But that's what we have to do. We can't hope here all day. If we're going to worry about where they go, just go bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And then we'll place the cards down and everyone will pick them up. and then we'll marry the two in post.

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

And then digitally, it's even better that he looks like he gets them all perfectly laid out to show what a card shark is. But that's what we have to do. We can't hope here all day. If we're going to worry about where they go, just go bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And then we'll place the cards down and everyone will pick them up. and then we'll marry the two in post.

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

And then digitally, it's even better that he looks like he gets them all perfectly laid out to show what a card shark is. But that's what we have to do. We can't hope here all day. If we're going to worry about where they go, just go bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And then we'll place the cards down and everyone will pick them up. and then we'll marry the two in post.

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

You just come up with creative solutions better, easier, because you were just solving crazy creative solutions in the other one, like what paint medium do I use? What kind of gel am I gonna use? So when you come back to your main job, which is filmmaking, you're like, oh, I can figure this out in two seconds. So it helps you create a problem solve.

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

You just come up with creative solutions better, easier, because you were just solving crazy creative solutions in the other one, like what paint medium do I use? What kind of gel am I gonna use? So when you come back to your main job, which is filmmaking, you're like, oh, I can figure this out in two seconds. So it helps you create a problem solve.

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

You just come up with creative solutions better, easier, because you were just solving crazy creative solutions in the other one, like what paint medium do I use? What kind of gel am I gonna use? So when you come back to your main job, which is filmmaking, you're like, oh, I can figure this out in two seconds. So it helps you create a problem solve.

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

So that's basically working with my kids made me realize, oh, now I know exactly what I want to do for the next 10 years. I only want to make movies with my kids because I'm mentoring them, but they're teaching me shit because they're the age I was when I made Mariachi and Desperado. And their ideas are really sharp. So the mentoring goes both ways. And it's like the greatest parenting experience.

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

So that's basically working with my kids made me realize, oh, now I know exactly what I want to do for the next 10 years. I only want to make movies with my kids because I'm mentoring them, but they're teaching me shit because they're the age I was when I made Mariachi and Desperado. And their ideas are really sharp. So the mentoring goes both ways. And it's like the greatest parenting experience.

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

So that's basically working with my kids made me realize, oh, now I know exactly what I want to do for the next 10 years. I only want to make movies with my kids because I'm mentoring them, but they're teaching me shit because they're the age I was when I made Mariachi and Desperado. And their ideas are really sharp. So the mentoring goes both ways. And it's like the greatest parenting experience.

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

you can do because you're building a project together and in the same boat together figuring it out and it's family time you're like checking all the boxes so i thought my filmmaking going forward is going to be checking all the boxes in life so i'm not not spending time with my family we're actually giving them lessons that they can go do anything they want in life because they're going to have different interests but now it's kind of like going to college and this college is like the best college because it pays you to learn you get to do these crazy skills like my son is

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

you can do because you're building a project together and in the same boat together figuring it out and it's family time you're like checking all the boxes so i thought my filmmaking going forward is going to be checking all the boxes in life so i'm not not spending time with my family we're actually giving them lessons that they can go do anything they want in life because they're going to have different interests but now it's kind of like going to college and this college is like the best college because it pays you to learn you get to do these crazy skills like my son is

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

you can do because you're building a project together and in the same boat together figuring it out and it's family time you're like checking all the boxes so i thought my filmmaking going forward is going to be checking all the boxes in life so i'm not not spending time with my family we're actually giving them lessons that they can go do anything they want in life because they're going to have different interests but now it's kind of like going to college and this college is like the best college because it pays you to learn you get to do these crazy skills like my son is

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

conducting the James Bond Orchestra in London for the Spy Kids score, the score he wrote, because I can't write at his level because he was always our best piano player. You get the charge out of working with them. By making a label, there's a weird phenomenon that happens. You guys want to take your game to another level. I stumbled upon this idea.

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

conducting the James Bond Orchestra in London for the Spy Kids score, the score he wrote, because I can't write at his level because he was always our best piano player. You get the charge out of working with them. By making a label, there's a weird phenomenon that happens. You guys want to take your game to another level. I stumbled upon this idea.

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

conducting the James Bond Orchestra in London for the Spy Kids score, the score he wrote, because I can't write at his level because he was always our best piano player. You get the charge out of working with them. By making a label, there's a weird phenomenon that happens. You guys want to take your game to another level. I stumbled upon this idea.

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

My son, that was my counterpart on that movie, Racer, he was my sound guy, like I said, came up with Sharkboy and Lava Girl when he was little. He became my writer, co-writer, co-producer. He had come to me and said, I want to do VR type movie. And I said, oh, let me show you as an example of creativity and manifesting. I said, let me show you how it works. Let's make a company.

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

My son, that was my counterpart on that movie, Racer, he was my sound guy, like I said, came up with Sharkboy and Lava Girl when he was little. He became my writer, co-writer, co-producer. He had come to me and said, I want to do VR type movie. And I said, oh, let me show you as an example of creativity and manifesting. I said, let me show you how it works. Let's make a company.