Robert Rodriguez
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Nov
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Yeah. So if you know that's the process, this is my answer.
Because I like to be counterintuitive.
Right. Yeah. So I told her, no, I don't have any doubts. Just to be counterintuitive. And I say, why? Because if you understand the process, why should you have a doubt? You might fail, but it might be four rooms. If you have an instinct to go there... or you don't know how you're going to do it, what's half the battle? Not knowing. That's the magic. I don't have to know.
I'm going to figure it out when I'm almost done. All those things come together.
And because you love it, you probably will have success at it. Yes, yes. Because I'm sure you were drawing, too, you know, in school. I would be drawing all day in school.
I'd make these flip cartoon books in the sides of the dictionaries, paper dictionaries, flip cartoon movies. I'd get the dictionary that was biggest and fattest, and I'd make these very elaborate stick figure animations. And everyone in class loved them, and I'd be like, I'm going to be broke. I used to do cartoons.
The power of the pen you had back then, right?
But did you think you were going to make a career out of that?
No, of course not. I was thinking, oh my God, I'm going to be so broke. I can't understand what they're talking about. I'm way behind. And I'm not the best artist, so it's not like I'm going to Like I'm some protege or something. So I'm fucked. But that's ended up being my career was just doing that stuff because you love it so much.
So I ask people, if you want to find what you're passionate, what is that thing that you run off to do on the weekend?
You put stuff together. Suddenly opportunities are going to fall in. In your lap.
So this is what I applied it to because I'd forgotten this lesson, which was... Just say you're this person. Stop aspiring. Right. Our words we use are so powerful. If you say, well, you know, I'm probably not going to be successful. That's your lot in life. You just you just did that.
So I had a friend of mine. I mean, like I, I always hated working out. I didn't follow any sports, didn't know sports. in high school, they'd go, we need you. It's a small school. We need you on the team. Look, you're tall and everything. You play basketball. I don't know how to play any of these things. I hate working out.
There's a line in the faculty that I gave to Elijah Wood because that was my line to teachers when they'd make me want to run and go, I don't think a person should run unless he's being chased. And they would leave me alone. But I hated it. And so then I became a filmmaker and Oh, when I was a cartoonist, my back kept going out.
19, I'm like, have a cane, and my back would be out for like a month, because I would sit at the kitchen table drawing. I was so tall that it was just, it would throw my back out. I would just, disc would go out. And then when I started filmmaking, Every year we just go out like clockworks. I'm operating the camera. I'm operating the Steadicam.
And when I was doing, you know, Spy Kids 2, I think, with Ricardo Montalban had a bad back that he got surgery and it fucked him up. And he was in a wheelchair. He was paralyzed. So he's in a wheelchair and I'm with a walker because my back went out and he goes, Robert, I'm 84 years old. What's your excuse? You got to work out, Robert. He was always in shape, Ricardo.
That chest in Star Trek II, that's his chest. Yeah, God. I know, and he was in his late 60s or his mid-60s.
Yeah, they did something fucked up.
And he went to a good place, but they just hit something wrong. They fucked him up. It happens to so many people. So I go, okay, I don't want that to happen to me. But I don't know how to work out. So the next year I worked with Stallone. Class Stallone. I got to get in shape because my back keeps going out. And I don't like to work. He goes, get thee a trainer.
Anyone you've ever seen in Hollywood who got in shape, they had a trainer. What about you? Oh, I need a trainer. You need a trainer. Well, then if you need a trainer, Mr. Rocky... What chance do us mortal men have? So I hired a trainer. And guess what happened? Hated it. Hated it. I'd hide from the guy. He'd come to my house. I'd pay him not to show up. I'd hate it. I'd hide. I'd hide.
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