Robert Rodriguez
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1,180 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Nov
Robert Rodriguez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like this right now, we're here having this great talk. This is way above baseline. I'm on the Joe Rogan show. So way above baseline. Celebrate that shit because it's not always there. Don't say that you're going to go down. You're just going to go to baseline. It's much easier to accept and then you're not in a negative position. You're just kind of at a normal.
I'm at a normal, and I'll really appreciate when anything above baseline happens. My daughter and I are about to go play an arena show. She's going to sing. I'm going to play with my band. I told her, way above baseline. We're going to get a nice hotel. We're going to really celebrate this because this shit doesn't always happen. And when everything is going really, really wrong, baseline.
Only when things are really down would you call yourself low, and you don't want to do that. Otherwise, you'll stay there for a much longer time. If you're just at baseline, that's just life. Oh, yeah, I tried to go make that movie and it didn't work. Baseline. That's such solid advice. It's really, it's mindset. It's all mind. It's all stuff you're doing to yourself.
And these are things I like to pass on to people because when they come back and give it back to me, I don't know if you'd give your kids advice as you learn it because you learn so much. You've got the best job in the world. You're learning all day. Yeah. I bet you don't know if it's going to stick with them.
I was shocked how much stuff not only sticks, but they come back and they feed it back to me.
Dad.
I've seen you move through the world.
I don't even drink coffee.
What is his name? He was working at the Sony when I first got there for... and I was like, this kid, and there are people my age who are assistants, and he was like, falling asleep at his desk. And I'm like, why are you falling asleep? And he goes, I'm trying to get off coffee. And I was like, oh my God, I'm never going to get on coffee. I want those guys getting their hooks in me.
And then over the years, you see like Starbucks showing up and everybody like zombies going in there having to get their coffee. As I drink some right now. It's fucking all marketing. It's made to be addictive, like nicotine and all that. And then your body can't create that. And I already stay up for days as it is. I don't want anything like that. Do you really?
I just did this...
what's your favorite workout music mine yeah clan i just did i just did a i love classic stuff like van halen and stuff but i just did a music video for wolfgang van halen and uh we shot it in two days and i was up two days cutting it because i just wanted to see what was going to happen next two days two days i was just like i want to see what happens next you don't even notice my shoulder is getting all up and i'm like what's wrong with my shoulder did i pull a muscle and doing some shrugs or something i was like
I went back to sit in that chair. I was like, oh, because I've been sitting like this for two days. Sitting just doing this. That's insane. But it's really cool.
It's different with editing. Editing is a weird – I was thinking that as I was doing it. I go, I wish I could do this with writing where I could just write for two days straight. But your words will knock me out, put me to sleep after a while. Editing is just visual stimulus, and you're so excited. I kept going, okay, one more hour, one more hour. And you just can't stop.
You just can't stop because now you're seeing it. It came out so cool. It's going to drop like next week. It rips your head off. It's a great workout song for sure, but it's just really entertaining.
The kid's telling me he does all the instruments himself. Really? Yeah, he plays every instrument. He plays the drums, the bass, the guitar, sings, writes the songs. When he goes on tour, he takes this really great band with him because he can't play all the parts. But the albums, his third album, he's working on his... plays all the instruments.
Super talented. Really, really fun. But I like working with people who just do more than other people. They're just at that level, and it's so inspiring. It inspires you. It's fuel.
Completely.
You have to. And it's like, you know, your parents tell you, Careful who your peers are when you're younger because it means one thing. Oh, yeah. But later even more. Like when I started going to the film festival and there's Quentin. And then I meet Jim Cameron. And then you meet like George Lucas. It's like you can't hang with these guys if you're not accomplishing something. Right.
So then when they say, hey, what are you up to? Well, I'm down in Texas and I got my own studio and I'm pioneering digital filmmaking and green screen technology. I want to make the first digital 3D movie. And they go, oh, okay, cool. I'm like, okay, I can hang out here for a while. God, I got to be doing something.
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