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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 you get there by having something to work on like this to take the technology to the next level. So it was cool to be able to help, you know, uh, knowing that you're being helpful to him in his process and not just distracting him.

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

But then also he liked that his artists had something else to work on besides just avatar to just work on something, you know, different to freshen up their perspective on things and methodology. And so, yeah, that was a really exciting movie to work on. And then we got to shoot it here, a Jim Cameron movie here in Austin. That was the best, having him here.

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

But then also he liked that his artists had something else to work on besides just avatar to just work on something, you know, different to freshen up their perspective on things and methodology. And so, yeah, that was a really exciting movie to work on. And then we got to shoot it here, a Jim Cameron movie here in Austin. That was the best, having him here.

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

But then also he liked that his artists had something else to work on besides just avatar to just work on something, you know, different to freshen up their perspective on things and methodology. And so, yeah, that was a really exciting movie to work on. And then we got to shoot it here, a Jim Cameron movie here in Austin. That was the best, having him here.

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

And my whole crew, who's worked with me 25, 30 years, everyone had an extra spring in their step because they're like, I mean, that's just like a high bar of achievement for everybody, you know, working on it.

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

And my whole crew, who's worked with me 25, 30 years, everyone had an extra spring in their step because they're like, I mean, that's just like a high bar of achievement for everybody, you know, working on it.

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

And my whole crew, who's worked with me 25, 30 years, everyone had an extra spring in their step because they're like, I mean, that's just like a high bar of achievement for everybody, you know, working on it.

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

I think any of those guys, George Lucas, you know, him, John Lasseter running into Pixar, it's a mix of... And I got really lucky. My first job was a Photoshop because my dad had a friend who owned a Photoshop. He said, your summer job. And I was 16. Go work for my friend, Mario.

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

I think any of those guys, George Lucas, you know, him, John Lasseter running into Pixar, it's a mix of... And I got really lucky. My first job was a Photoshop because my dad had a friend who owned a Photoshop. He said, your summer job. And I was 16. Go work for my friend, Mario.

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

I think any of those guys, George Lucas, you know, him, John Lasseter running into Pixar, it's a mix of... And I got really lucky. My first job was a Photoshop because my dad had a friend who owned a Photoshop. He said, your summer job. And I was 16. Go work for my friend, Mario.

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

So I go to Mario's Photoshop and I'm, you know, developing pictures or, you know, think you develop photos from film and He said, here, take this camera home. Give me one of those cameras. Take this camera home and some film. I need you to learn how to use the camera so you can help me sell the cameras. So I went home and I have a bunch of siblings. So like, well, the stars are bedhead.

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

So I go to Mario's Photoshop and I'm, you know, developing pictures or, you know, think you develop photos from film and He said, here, take this camera home. Give me one of those cameras. Take this camera home and some film. I need you to learn how to use the camera so you can help me sell the cameras. So I went home and I have a bunch of siblings. So like, well, the stars are bedhead.

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

So I go to Mario's Photoshop and I'm, you know, developing pictures or, you know, think you develop photos from film and He said, here, take this camera home. Give me one of those cameras. Take this camera home and some film. I need you to learn how to use the camera so you can help me sell the cameras. So I went home and I have a bunch of siblings. So like, well, the stars are bedhead.

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

Taking all these pictures of everybody. I take it back and he looks at the pictures when he develops. He's like, whoa, these are really creative. You're a creative person. So when sometimes people tell you something that you can't unhear, and he goes, that's a gift. But you need to know now, now you need to become technical. because most creative people need technicians.

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

Taking all these pictures of everybody. I take it back and he looks at the pictures when he develops. He's like, whoa, these are really creative. You're a creative person. So when sometimes people tell you something that you can't unhear, and he goes, that's a gift. But you need to know now, now you need to become technical. because most creative people need technicians.

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

Taking all these pictures of everybody. I take it back and he looks at the pictures when he develops. He's like, whoa, these are really creative. You're a creative person. So when sometimes people tell you something that you can't unhear, and he goes, that's a gift. But you need to know now, now you need to become technical. because most creative people need technicians.

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

So here, I want you to learn zone photography. I want you to learn this, the technical part of it. So that's why I didn't take a crew in Mariachi because I knew if I'm just a creative person and I need a crew to go actually technically make the movie, I'll always need something. And when you want to really change your life, you want to get your I need list down to little as possible.

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

So here, I want you to learn zone photography. I want you to learn this, the technical part of it. So that's why I didn't take a crew in Mariachi because I knew if I'm just a creative person and I need a crew to go actually technically make the movie, I'll always need something. And when you want to really change your life, you want to get your I need list down to little as possible.

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

So here, I want you to learn zone photography. I want you to learn this, the technical part of it. So that's why I didn't take a crew in Mariachi because I knew if I'm just a creative person and I need a crew to go actually technically make the movie, I'll always need something. And when you want to really change your life, you want to get your I need list down to little as possible.

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

Because if you're like, well, I want to shoot my movie, but I need a cameraman and I need somebody who knows how to light it. Your I need list keeps growing. That's further and further and further you will be from what you need to accomplish. So I kind of went down there without any help. So that remember that script analogy where the guy said, throw away three scripts.