Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Robert Rodriguez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3500 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

I was 19 years old when I did that. And then years later, I'm making Sin City. I shot Mickey not knowing who the other actor was going to be until I cast him eight months later and it was Rudger. I'm cutting them together to look like they're in the same movie and it's in black and white. And I'm like, done this before. Oh my God, I found that old video.

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

I was 19 years old when I did that. And then years later, I'm making Sin City. I shot Mickey not knowing who the other actor was going to be until I cast him eight months later and it was Rudger. I'm cutting them together to look like they're in the same movie and it's in black and white. And I'm like, done this before. Oh my God, I found that old video.

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

I was 19 years old when I did that. And then years later, I'm making Sin City. I shot Mickey not knowing who the other actor was going to be until I cast him eight months later and it was Rudger. I'm cutting them together to look like they're in the same movie and it's in black and white. And I'm like, done this before. Oh my God, I found that old video.

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

It's like, oh my God, I already made a movie with him in black and white. That's some weird shit, right? That's the magic of creativity. It's like sometimes when you have a vision, it's not clear, but it's coming to you from the future. So you got to just follow the voice.

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

It's like, oh my God, I already made a movie with him in black and white. That's some weird shit, right? That's the magic of creativity. It's like sometimes when you have a vision, it's not clear, but it's coming to you from the future. So you got to just follow the voice.

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

It's like, oh my God, I already made a movie with him in black and white. That's some weird shit, right? That's the magic of creativity. It's like sometimes when you have a vision, it's not clear, but it's coming to you from the future. So you got to just follow the voice.

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

No matter what anyone says about your curtains, just follow the voice you got in your head because you don't know and you're not smart enough to know. And you don't need to know. You just need to do. You just need to be the hands. So this is like what you can do with no time or money when you know all those jobs. It's the benefit of knowing those jobs.

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

No matter what anyone says about your curtains, just follow the voice you got in your head because you don't know and you're not smart enough to know. And you don't need to know. You just need to do. You just need to be the hands. So this is like what you can do with no time or money when you know all those jobs. It's the benefit of knowing those jobs.

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

No matter what anyone says about your curtains, just follow the voice you got in your head because you don't know and you're not smart enough to know. And you don't need to know. You just need to do. You just need to be the hands. So this is like what you can do with no time or money when you know all those jobs. It's the benefit of knowing those jobs.

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

Like I said, the more you know those jobs, the more you know your main job, which is being creative, but on the day, thinking on your feet. So I'm going to show you this test. Okay, so for Dustled on the TV series, I would always shoot the first episode and the last episode of like a seven or eight episode season. There's three seasons.

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

Like I said, the more you know those jobs, the more you know your main job, which is being creative, but on the day, thinking on your feet. So I'm going to show you this test. Okay, so for Dustled on the TV series, I would always shoot the first episode and the last episode of like a seven or eight episode season. There's three seasons.

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

Like I said, the more you know those jobs, the more you know your main job, which is being creative, but on the day, thinking on your feet. So I'm going to show you this test. Okay, so for Dustled on the TV series, I would always shoot the first episode and the last episode of like a seven or eight episode season. There's three seasons.

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

By the time we got to the third season, I was doing Alita, so I couldn't do the big finale episode. And my actor who plays the George Clooney character, DJ Catrona, he's somebody who fucking wanted to be a writer, was writing. He wrote Fight and Flight. It's this movie that's gonna come out with Josh Arnett. That's his, he wrote it.

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

By the time we got to the third season, I was doing Alita, so I couldn't do the big finale episode. And my actor who plays the George Clooney character, DJ Catrona, he's somebody who fucking wanted to be a writer, was writing. He wrote Fight and Flight. It's this movie that's gonna come out with Josh Arnett. That's his, he wrote it.

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

By the time we got to the third season, I was doing Alita, so I couldn't do the big finale episode. And my actor who plays the George Clooney character, DJ Catrona, he's somebody who fucking wanted to be a writer, was writing. He wrote Fight and Flight. It's this movie that's gonna come out with Josh Arnett. That's his, he wrote it.

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

And after doing this, he was like, man, hearing you talk, you know what, I got, this is what I love about, you inspire people, the feedback loop inspires you back. He said, man, hearing your talk for Red 11 and the cards and I've got a script that's partially written. I'm just going to go crank it out in 3D. I'm going to cut off the phone in 3D.

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

And after doing this, he was like, man, hearing you talk, you know what, I got, this is what I love about, you inspire people, the feedback loop inspires you back. He said, man, hearing your talk for Red 11 and the cards and I've got a script that's partially written. I'm just going to go crank it out in 3D. I'm going to cut off the phone in 3D.

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

And after doing this, he was like, man, hearing you talk, you know what, I got, this is what I love about, you inspire people, the feedback loop inspires you back. He said, man, hearing your talk for Red 11 and the cards and I've got a script that's partially written. I'm just going to go crank it out in 3D. I'm going to cut off the phone in 3D.

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

I'm going to finish that thing in three fucking days. And he came back and he said, I finished the script and I read it. And I go, you read it in three days? And he goes, well, I wrote some of it before, but it... I just kept thinking I wasn't ready. And then you told me the thing about not being ready. And you said that it really resonated. I went and I finished it in three days.

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

I'm going to finish that thing in three fucking days. And he came back and he said, I finished the script and I read it. And I go, you read it in three days? And he goes, well, I wrote some of it before, but it... I just kept thinking I wasn't ready. And then you told me the thing about not being ready. And you said that it really resonated. I went and I finished it in three days.