Robert Rodriguez

You have to edit your own movie. I have this analogy. A food analogy that works really well. Script is like your grocery list. Filming is like grocery shopping. Getting the best performance is getting the best beat, getting the best ingredients, right?

You have to edit your own movie. I have this analogy. A food analogy that works really well. Script is like your grocery list. Filming is like grocery shopping. Getting the best performance is getting the best beat, getting the best ingredients, right?

editing is like the cooking too much of this and not enough that you fuck the whole thing up so so many filmmakers do not edit yeah and they give it to some other guy who might look at all your ingredients and go this is all great but i'm gonna go make a fucking souffle and he makes something else so by doing that job i mean like i've worked on some big stuff and i realized finally after many years because i've always edited i realized this is why movies cost so much

editing is like the cooking too much of this and not enough that you fuck the whole thing up so so many filmmakers do not edit yeah and they give it to some other guy who might look at all your ingredients and go this is all great but i'm gonna go make a fucking souffle and he makes something else so by doing that job i mean like i've worked on some big stuff and i realized finally after many years because i've always edited i realized this is why movies cost so much

editing is like the cooking too much of this and not enough that you fuck the whole thing up so so many filmmakers do not edit yeah and they give it to some other guy who might look at all your ingredients and go this is all great but i'm gonna go make a fucking souffle and he makes something else so by doing that job i mean like i've worked on some big stuff and i realized finally after many years because i've always edited i realized this is why movies cost so much

There could be 150, 200 people on the crew, but I swear not one of them knows how to edit. Not one. So they're getting the wrong stuff. They're having to reshoot shit. The editor is in a room somewhere, useless, calling after the fact. We still need to get this close-up. Or you got to reshoot that because it doesn't match. Because no one knows editing.

There could be 150, 200 people on the crew, but I swear not one of them knows how to edit. Not one. So they're getting the wrong stuff. They're having to reshoot shit. The editor is in a room somewhere, useless, calling after the fact. We still need to get this close-up. Or you got to reshoot that because it doesn't match. Because no one knows editing.

There could be 150, 200 people on the crew, but I swear not one of them knows how to edit. Not one. So they're getting the wrong stuff. They're having to reshoot shit. The editor is in a room somewhere, useless, calling after the fact. We still need to get this close-up. Or you got to reshoot that because it doesn't match. Because no one knows editing.

So if you just know that, you're already miles ahead of 99% of Hollywood. But that's just how I learned by accident. So I kind of stumbled upon it. And I realized that's what the problem is because across the board, I'm watching them going, that's not going to match. You guys are just spending money, sending crews out, shooting stuff for this. It's just, it's a clusterfuck. Let me show you.

So if you just know that, you're already miles ahead of 99% of Hollywood. But that's just how I learned by accident. So I kind of stumbled upon it. And I realized that's what the problem is because across the board, I'm watching them going, that's not going to match. You guys are just spending money, sending crews out, shooting stuff for this. It's just, it's a clusterfuck. Let me show you.

So if you just know that, you're already miles ahead of 99% of Hollywood. But that's just how I learned by accident. So I kind of stumbled upon it. And I realized that's what the problem is because across the board, I'm watching them going, that's not going to match. You guys are just spending money, sending crews out, shooting stuff for this. It's just, it's a clusterfuck. Let me show you.

And that's how Sin City, Bruce Willis, nine days. Brittany Murphy's in all three stories, one day. Benicio Del Toro, three days. It's just like, you're just shooting this stuff. Mickey Rourke is in a sequence with Rudger Hauer. We shot eight months apart. I didn't have Rudger Hauer until I was doing Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

And that's how Sin City, Bruce Willis, nine days. Brittany Murphy's in all three stories, one day. Benicio Del Toro, three days. It's just like, you're just shooting this stuff. Mickey Rourke is in a sequence with Rudger Hauer. We shot eight months apart. I didn't have Rudger Hauer until I was doing Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

And that's how Sin City, Bruce Willis, nine days. Brittany Murphy's in all three stories, one day. Benicio Del Toro, three days. It's just like, you're just shooting this stuff. Mickey Rourke is in a sequence with Rudger Hauer. We shot eight months apart. I didn't have Rudger Hauer until I was doing Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

So I just shot Mickey acting with me and then I shot Rudger acting with me and then I just cut them together. What's weird is like editing exercises are like, I used to do these editing exercises where I would do my VCRs together and I would cut my movies, but sometimes I would just cut a music video.

So I just shot Mickey acting with me and then I shot Rudger acting with me and then I just cut them together. What's weird is like editing exercises are like, I used to do these editing exercises where I would do my VCRs together and I would cut my movies, but sometimes I would just cut a music video.

So I just shot Mickey acting with me and then I shot Rudger acting with me and then I just cut them together. What's weird is like editing exercises are like, I used to do these editing exercises where I would do my VCRs together and I would cut my movies, but sometimes I would just cut a music video.

And I cut a music video once because I was a big fan of Rudger Hauer and a big fan of Mickey Rourke. So I said, I want to make it look like they're in a movie together. So I cut this music video together. And so it shows like lightning on Rudger and the Hitcher and then lightning on Mickey from Rumblefish. But Rumblefish is black and white. So I made the whole thing black and white. I was like 19.

And I cut a music video once because I was a big fan of Rudger Hauer and a big fan of Mickey Rourke. So I said, I want to make it look like they're in a movie together. So I cut this music video together. And so it shows like lightning on Rudger and the Hitcher and then lightning on Mickey from Rumblefish. But Rumblefish is black and white. So I made the whole thing black and white. I was like 19.

And I cut a music video once because I was a big fan of Rudger Hauer and a big fan of Mickey Rourke. So I said, I want to make it look like they're in a movie together. So I cut this music video together. And so it shows like lightning on Rudger and the Hitcher and then lightning on Mickey from Rumblefish. But Rumblefish is black and white. So I made the whole thing black and white. I was like 19.