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Robert Rodriguez

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

I want it to look just like this because it would be the boldest movie anyone's seen because that's how it reads when I read the book. It's like, if this was moving, it would be the most phenomenal movie. In fact, I asked him, do you ever... Feel like directing any of these short ones? I thought about directing The Big Fat Kill maybe as a short film. You should come direct that one.

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

I want it to look just like this because it would be the boldest movie anyone's seen because that's how it reads when I read the book. It's like, if this was moving, it would be the most phenomenal movie. In fact, I asked him, do you ever... Feel like directing any of these short ones? I thought about directing The Big Fat Kill maybe as a short film. You should come direct that one.

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

Shit, you should direct all of them with me because I'm really copying and writing a book. You should direct it with me. All right, let's go. So then January. Okay, so remember, I met him in November. I wrote it in December. January, we shoot the test. Took me a couple of weeks to do the effects. He loves it. I make a meeting with Bruce Willis, show it to Bruce Willis.

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

Shit, you should direct all of them with me because I'm really copying and writing a book. You should direct it with me. All right, let's go. So then January. Okay, so remember, I met him in November. I wrote it in December. January, we shoot the test. Took me a couple of weeks to do the effects. He loves it. I make a meeting with Bruce Willis, show it to Bruce Willis.

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

Shit, you should direct all of them with me because I'm really copying and writing a book. You should direct it with me. All right, let's go. So then January. Okay, so remember, I met him in November. I wrote it in December. January, we shoot the test. Took me a couple of weeks to do the effects. He loves it. I make a meeting with Bruce Willis, show it to Bruce Willis.

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

What's so cool about doing that opening scene is that any actor I show it to now, I show them the book, which is awesome. You'd be playing this character, but look at this test. Let me show you the book, what it looked like before I turned this test into a test. Watches it, Josh Arnett, voiceover, music, titles come on. First name on the screen, Bruce Willis.

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

What's so cool about doing that opening scene is that any actor I show it to now, I show them the book, which is awesome. You'd be playing this character, but look at this test. Let me show you the book, what it looked like before I turned this test into a test. Watches it, Josh Arnett, voiceover, music, titles come on. First name on the screen, Bruce Willis.

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

What's so cool about doing that opening scene is that any actor I show it to now, I show them the book, which is awesome. You'd be playing this character, but look at this test. Let me show you the book, what it looked like before I turned this test into a test. Watches it, Josh Arnett, voiceover, music, titles come on. First name on the screen, Bruce Willis.

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

And I go, hey, look, you're in the credits. You have to do it now. Manifesting it, right? He's like, shit, man, this is great. I'm in. He's in. Wow. Go get everyone else from that. It was just easy to get. And we were filming the movie. So February, right?

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

And I go, hey, look, you're in the credits. You have to do it now. Manifesting it, right? He's like, shit, man, this is great. I'm in. He's in. Wow. Go get everyone else from that. It was just easy to get. And we were filming the movie. So February, right?

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

And I go, hey, look, you're in the credits. You have to do it now. Manifesting it, right? He's like, shit, man, this is great. I'm in. He's in. Wow. Go get everyone else from that. It was just easy to get. And we were filming the movie. So February, right?

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

building the few little sets we had like the bar i told frank we don't need to build a bar but i'm gonna go ahead and build a bar so we have a place to go have script meetings everything else will be green screen we'll build fake steps and things out of green so we're doing that and i'm casting the first one we're shooting the movie by march the beginning of march and i remember because my son was born march 3rd and i was in la for his birth because i was also recording the orchestra for the score i wrote somehow in the past few months for kill bill 2

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

building the few little sets we had like the bar i told frank we don't need to build a bar but i'm gonna go ahead and build a bar so we have a place to go have script meetings everything else will be green screen we'll build fake steps and things out of green so we're doing that and i'm casting the first one we're shooting the movie by march the beginning of march and i remember because my son was born march 3rd and i was in la for his birth because i was also recording the orchestra for the score i wrote somehow in the past few months for kill bill 2

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

building the few little sets we had like the bar i told frank we don't need to build a bar but i'm gonna go ahead and build a bar so we have a place to go have script meetings everything else will be green screen we'll build fake steps and things out of green so we're doing that and i'm casting the first one we're shooting the movie by march the beginning of march and i remember because my son was born march 3rd and i was in la for his birth because i was also recording the orchestra for the score i wrote somehow in the past few months for kill bill 2

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

That's how much stuff was going on. Yeah. You know, that's like when you just let it flow, you're just riding the wave. You're not doing any of that. That's what's by staying in that urgent, the deadlines are just pushing you to create stuff. We shot the movie so fast in record time. Now, not only that, I shot a whole other movie that year.

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

That's how much stuff was going on. Yeah. You know, that's like when you just let it flow, you're just riding the wave. You're not doing any of that. That's what's by staying in that urgent, the deadlines are just pushing you to create stuff. We shot the movie so fast in record time. Now, not only that, I shot a whole other movie that year.

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

That's how much stuff was going on. Yeah. You know, that's like when you just let it flow, you're just riding the wave. You're not doing any of that. That's what's by staying in that urgent, the deadlines are just pushing you to create stuff. We shot the movie so fast in record time. Now, not only that, I shot a whole other movie that year.

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

I shot The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl with kids that came out two months after Sin City the next year. Within less than a year, Sin City was out. You're shooting that in parallel with Sin City. That's hilarious. Is that great? Yeah.

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

I shot The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl with kids that came out two months after Sin City the next year. Within less than a year, Sin City was out. You're shooting that in parallel with Sin City. That's hilarious. Is that great? Yeah.

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

I shot The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl with kids that came out two months after Sin City the next year. Within less than a year, Sin City was out. You're shooting that in parallel with Sin City. That's hilarious. Is that great? Yeah.