Robert Rodriguez
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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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My best interview on the director's chair is him because it's the most one that any layman could identify with. The guy really is rocky. His story is unbelievable and he's really funny. I interviewed him before for the UFC.
He called me and said, he asked if an actor friend of mine could be in one of the Expendables. He's like, my actor fell through. Can you ask, what's his name? You know, friend of mine. Yeah, I'll ask. So I asked my friend. My friend goes, oh, no, it's too short notice, you know, because it was a last minute replacement. I need to get in shape. Okay, that makes sense. But it's not a physical role.
You're just wondering, I wouldn't want to be in a Stallone movie and not be in shape. So I have to get in shape. and I don't have enough time. I'm just going to shoot in a week. So I go to Sly, and I say, Sly, he said, I figured Sly would understand. Yeah, he has to get in shape.
It was probably for Copland. No, it wasn't for Copland.
No excuses.
Stay in shape.
That did such a great interview because I watched the Rocky movies. When was the last time you saw the Rocky movies?
Get in and out.
Yeah. And you're working the body and you're getting ideas. And I keep my computer there and I write down ideas. Oh, nice. Did you see the – I was watching the Rocky movies again. And I was like, we watched the first one. Showed it to my lady. She loved it. So I said, we've got to watch the second one. Watch the second one. The next night we watched the third one.
Finally, we got to the fourth one. I said, okay, I'm going to write Stallone. I said, dude, you are consistently moving that character through the different eras, and You need to go back to directing because when I worked with him, he'd done a bunch of movies in the 90s and he was telling me why the movies didn't work. I said, you got to go back to directing. No one was at your level.
Directing yourself, getting career bests out of your other actors while you're also not just the star but the franchise and being in insane shape back then, which was way before anyone knew anything about training. You were probably in the gym much longer than you needed to be. And he said, very perceptive. I was like, you probably were way over training because people didn't know.
There were no science to it back then. Right. And getting all that work done. So how can you work with another director now? They can have their respect. You got to go back to directing because you can't argue with the result. And he was like, I can't go back to directing. Well, we did this movie together. It was his biggest opening ever with Spy Kids 3D.
Two years later, or a year later, he goes, I'm writing another Rocky. And that was that new Rocky. He hadn't directed in 22 years. Whoa. He went back to directing and writing, did another Rocky, another Rambo, and then a whole new franchise, Expendables.
crazy like for your career to come back like that did stunts and expendables and broke his fucking crazy but because he went back and that's sometimes you know that's the key to successes yeah it's late 60s and i said yeah he's doing his own stunts it's harder to go do it all yourself but look you can't argue with the results look at the results you got back then
I'm so glad he went back to it because it inspires me all over again. So, you know, I'm sure you've done that. Someone that really inspired you. I want to know who are your heroes that you got to inspire back in some way. And then you're just like, oh, my God, they inspired me so that I could be here for them when they needed to hear that to go on.
It was like all part of the universe of that creativity. You know, you're the one who goes whispers in their ear. Another one with him because he inspired me, you know, so many times was. I started working with my kids more. It's very counterintuitive.
Like, I don't know if you work with your kids or whatever plan to work with your kids, but I would say to anybody, if you have an opportunity to work with your kids, take it. Because when I was like, when I turned 50, I thought, I guess I could keep making movies. It's been good to me. I guess I could just make more.
I mean, I was way into it, you know, when I was younger and it's been good to me, but I bet there might be another job I can take. that with the knowledge I have, I could probably make just as much money or something. I don't even know what jobs exist. I got this job when I was 21. So I got jobs for dummies. And I started looking for all the other jobs where, oh, I want that job, I want that job.
And then I get to filmmaker. It has a little icon of a guy with his hands up like this. And it says, this is the best job. Just make movies with your friends. You sit back, watch the money roll in. But 99% of film students can't get this job, so give it up. So I went, I actually got the best job, so I'll stick with it.
But there still wasn't enough desire until I made that $7,000 movie with my kids. And they got so into it, and I realized, that's my next 10 years. I'm going to work with my kids. I'm going to make them all.
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