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Robert Rodriguez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

When I show him the trailer for Grindhouse and he sees the machine gun laying all that, he just goes, whoa!

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

When I show him the trailer for Grindhouse and he sees the machine gun laying all that, he just goes, whoa!

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

When I show him the trailer for Grindhouse and he sees the machine gun laying all that, he just goes, whoa!

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

that's unbridled filmmaking from the id it makes sense only the second you're watching it not a second after but the second you're watching and you believe it yeah he's uh he's really interesting in that he's so prolific i walked into his writing studio and it'd be like on one of the tables like do you have those papers there imagine them that thick that thick that thick all scripts scripts what are these he goes

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

that's unbridled filmmaking from the id it makes sense only the second you're watching it not a second after but the second you're watching and you believe it yeah he's uh he's really interesting in that he's so prolific i walked into his writing studio and it'd be like on one of the tables like do you have those papers there imagine them that thick that thick that thick all scripts scripts what are these he goes

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

that's unbridled filmmaking from the id it makes sense only the second you're watching it not a second after but the second you're watching and you believe it yeah he's uh he's really interesting in that he's so prolific i walked into his writing studio and it'd be like on one of the tables like do you have those papers there imagine them that thick that thick that thick all scripts scripts what are these he goes

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

This is a whole, you know, space opera version of this movie. We're not making that one. It's like, he's just cranking out all this stuff. Like, again, can I take this and go make this, please? But yeah, we bounced off each other because I loved his analytical part of his brain. I'm not that analytical. I'm just kind of like, hey, I'm really creative feeling.

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

This is a whole, you know, space opera version of this movie. We're not making that one. It's like, he's just cranking out all this stuff. Like, again, can I take this and go make this, please? But yeah, we bounced off each other because I loved his analytical part of his brain. I'm not that analytical. I'm just kind of like, hey, I'm really creative feeling.

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

This is a whole, you know, space opera version of this movie. We're not making that one. It's like, he's just cranking out all this stuff. Like, again, can I take this and go make this, please? But yeah, we bounced off each other because I loved his analytical part of his brain. I'm not that analytical. I'm just kind of like, hey, I'm really creative feeling.

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

I'm like, woo, I'll go this way and then woo, I'll go that way. And he likes that about me. But I like, I want to be, because I think about things too much. Like, you think about things like, What makes a movie a billion-dollar hit? What are the elements that you need? And I'm going to analyze that, and I'm going to make sure my movie does that.

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

I'm like, woo, I'll go this way and then woo, I'll go that way. And he likes that about me. But I like, I want to be, because I think about things too much. Like, you think about things like, What makes a movie a billion-dollar hit? What are the elements that you need? And I'm going to analyze that, and I'm going to make sure my movie does that.

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

I'm like, woo, I'll go this way and then woo, I'll go that way. And he likes that about me. But I like, I want to be, because I think about things too much. Like, you think about things like, What makes a movie a billion-dollar hit? What are the elements that you need? And I'm going to analyze that, and I'm going to make sure my movie does that.

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

And he engineers a submarine that can break the world record. He engineers a movie that can break the world record. You know, he's like, he has that engineering mind, but the creative part, that's very rare. So that's very rare. And he's capitalized on both.

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

And he engineers a submarine that can break the world record. He engineers a movie that can break the world record. You know, he's like, he has that engineering mind, but the creative part, that's very rare. So that's very rare. And he's capitalized on both.

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

And he engineers a submarine that can break the world record. He engineers a movie that can break the world record. You know, he's like, he has that engineering mind, but the creative part, that's very rare. So that's very rare. And he's capitalized on both.

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

He had this submarine model like this big on his desk, the one that he broke the world record for going and just seeing it and knowing he didn't have kids and stuff and wife. And I'm like, weren't you afraid going down there with, you know, something could happen? It's like, no, I wasn't afraid. Like, why not? And he goes, Because I designed the escape vehicle.

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

He had this submarine model like this big on his desk, the one that he broke the world record for going and just seeing it and knowing he didn't have kids and stuff and wife. And I'm like, weren't you afraid going down there with, you know, something could happen? It's like, no, I wasn't afraid. Like, why not? And he goes, Because I designed the escape vehicle.

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

He had this submarine model like this big on his desk, the one that he broke the world record for going and just seeing it and knowing he didn't have kids and stuff and wife. And I'm like, weren't you afraid going down there with, you know, something could happen? It's like, no, I wasn't afraid. Like, why not? And he goes, Because I designed the escape vehicle.

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

Yeah, if it was any other bozo, I'd be afraid. But he designed the escape vehicle. That kind of confidence, that's him. He just knows if some other bozo had designed the escape vehicle, I would be afraid. But total confidence because he did it.

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

Yeah, if it was any other bozo, I'd be afraid. But he designed the escape vehicle. That kind of confidence, that's him. He just knows if some other bozo had designed the escape vehicle, I would be afraid. But total confidence because he did it.