Robert Rodriguez
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1,180 appearances
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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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Build up your community around you. We built this amazing community of filmmakers here. All they made here were westerns before that. Suddenly I was making Spy Kids, Sin City, you know, these crazy movies that really changed. The ripple effects to the whole community is huge because you're changing the workforce. Yes, exactly.
And so you just by doing that thing and it's like it isn't like an instinct. It's like it's preplanned. It's like it's pre laid out.
I tell my artists when you come to my house, you're going to feel it. You'll feel like these connections. And I go, I think we realize we're not that smart. You know, we're not smart enough to predict all that stuff. I think we've lived this life many times before and we forget a lot of it. So we have a barely impersonate impression of what we're supposed to do.
But it's because we did it a thousand times and we forgot it each time. Like a dream when you wake up from a dream. That might be true. Because, you know, you wake up from a dream and you go, I was a filmmaker in that dream and I had five kids. You know, that's what it's going to be like when our life is over.
You'll wake up and it'll be like your past lifetime just goes away and then you can go start again and only now you're a fish or something. But I had this thought, wow, what if I wake up and I can barely remember the dream? And that's it because it feels like sometimes you feel like you can predict the future but not like you can predict it.
You recognize it once it happens like, oh, yeah, this is right. But how did I know to go this way? I didn't on purpose. Like you said, I didn't set all the things that needed to fall into place. They're too coincidental. What is that about? So that's why even more, just follow your instinct. Follow your instinct even if it sounds bonkers. Follow it.
And if it fails, keep going because there might be your four rooms or something. Just keep going.
Go another way.
I mean, it's like high school. You go back to, you know, someone famously leaves high school and goes off to college and goes off and sees the world. They come back to their old hometown and they find their old friends still driving the same streets.
They're still doing the same shit the same way. And you just went off the reservation and discover a whole world.
What do you mean by being on television? You mean like sitcoms and stuff?
It seems like it's come back the other way. So many comics have such great, like Netflix specials are massive. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where it's basically them doing stand-up, but... they've got a huge audience.
It's like there weren't any filmmakers here.
Everyone's waiting. You get a lot more done. I was cranky. Sometimes I'd have two movies out a year. I would be making that so fast because I just had a studio where it's like, let's just make more stuff.
Way better. Yeah. That's why it's like I try to create original franchises. Because if you go direct one of the James Bonds, you're one of the James Bond director. But if you create your own franchise, like a Spike, it feels so much better. Right. When that's successful and someone says, wow, I really like that movie, you go, oh, I did that voice. That's you. Oh, my God. I grew up with that.
You know, it's like, oh, yeah, it's a homemade movie. You know, so it's much more gratifying. And, yeah, I did the right thing by moving out.
Oh, yeah, we want to do another one for sure.
It was part of a graphic novel series. Yes. You got to come to my studio. That whole set.
That city is still in my parking lot. Really? 20-foot ceilings, seven streets. It's like the largest standing set in the country, if not the world.
You're not going to believe what's here.
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