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Robert Rodriguez

πŸ‘€ Speaker
3500 total appearances

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

It's weird. It's weird, but it's kind of nice to know that you can do that. But you have to just have that conviction and just say, start with a label. Yeah, the R. The double R or the label you just gave yourself. Like I changed my label. My label was, I hate working out. I'm an athlete. I'm an athlete. I'm not a non-athlete anymore. I'm changing my label.

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

It's weird. It's weird, but it's kind of nice to know that you can do that. But you have to just have that conviction and just say, start with a label. Yeah, the R. The double R or the label you just gave yourself. Like I changed my label. My label was, I hate working out. I'm an athlete. I'm an athlete. I'm not a non-athlete anymore. I'm changing my label.

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

It's weird. It's weird, but it's kind of nice to know that you can do that. But you have to just have that conviction and just say, start with a label. Yeah, the R. The double R or the label you just gave yourself. Like I changed my label. My label was, I hate working out. I'm an athlete. I'm an athlete. I'm not a non-athlete anymore. I'm changing my label.

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

And you get so inspired because now you know what to do. Because you can't help but conform to your identity. You're always going to conform to your identity. So just change your identity and you'll change your life. And it's not that hard. I didn't have to go get hypnotized or anything. It was literally, I just told myself.

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

And you get so inspired because now you know what to do. Because you can't help but conform to your identity. You're always going to conform to your identity. So just change your identity and you'll change your life. And it's not that hard. I didn't have to go get hypnotized or anything. It was literally, I just told myself.

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

And you get so inspired because now you know what to do. Because you can't help but conform to your identity. You're always going to conform to your identity. So just change your identity and you'll change your life. And it's not that hard. I didn't have to go get hypnotized or anything. It was literally, I just told myself.

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

If I could do that, go from a guy who doesn't want to work out, hates it, hates it. I had the desire. I was already hiring the guy. I lacked the identity. As soon as I changed my identity, boom.

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

If I could do that, go from a guy who doesn't want to work out, hates it, hates it. I had the desire. I was already hiring the guy. I lacked the identity. As soon as I changed my identity, boom.

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

If I could do that, go from a guy who doesn't want to work out, hates it, hates it. I had the desire. I was already hiring the guy. I lacked the identity. As soon as I changed my identity, boom.

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

But I heard you rip on fucking guitar. And I've heard you play kind of amazing in all different kinds of contexts. Oh, but I should be like freaking Santana by now because I've had a guitar in my hands since I was a kid. But since I'm not a full-time musician, I don't get to play it that often. So I'm not as good as I should be.

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

But I heard you rip on fucking guitar. And I've heard you play kind of amazing in all different kinds of contexts. Oh, but I should be like freaking Santana by now because I've had a guitar in my hands since I was a kid. But since I'm not a full-time musician, I don't get to play it that often. So I'm not as good as I should be.

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

But I heard you rip on fucking guitar. And I've heard you play kind of amazing in all different kinds of contexts. Oh, but I should be like freaking Santana by now because I've had a guitar in my hands since I was a kid. But since I'm not a full-time musician, I don't get to play it that often. So I'm not as good as I should be.

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

But when you apply yourself to just rehearse for a couple of shows, you book some shows. Look at this. This is me just playing our first arena show opening for George Lopez. That was crazy to be on the stages. Where your heroes, that you saw them, now you're seeing what their point of view was. It blows your mind. You need to just get on stage.

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

But when you apply yourself to just rehearse for a couple of shows, you book some shows. Look at this. This is me just playing our first arena show opening for George Lopez. That was crazy to be on the stages. Where your heroes, that you saw them, now you're seeing what their point of view was. It blows your mind. You need to just get on stage.

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

But when you apply yourself to just rehearse for a couple of shows, you book some shows. Look at this. This is me just playing our first arena show opening for George Lopez. That was crazy to be on the stages. Where your heroes, that you saw them, now you're seeing what their point of view was. It blows your mind. You need to just get on stage.

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

You get on stage once and you'll see that it's not as bad as you think.

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

You get on stage once and you'll see that it's not as bad as you think.

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

You get on stage once and you'll see that it's not as bad as you think.

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

But you don't want to focus on that. You just go like, okay, I got it through. Because when you're up there... It's not that you're screaming nervous, but your hands just won't work anymore. Something will happen. But that happens to everybody. If you really watch even the best in their live performances, watch really close, and you see they screw up a couple things, but you just want to notice.

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

But you don't want to focus on that. You just go like, okay, I got it through. Because when you're up there... It's not that you're screaming nervous, but your hands just won't work anymore. Something will happen. But that happens to everybody. If you really watch even the best in their live performances, watch really close, and you see they screw up a couple things, but you just want to notice.