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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And when he goes to open it, I cut to the other one. Once the wood is, watch the edits, you'll see it open. Now it's a completely different case for the guns. And when he goes to cut it, When you close it, it cuts to the other one and he goes, oh, that's how I did that whole movie. Again, it was a practice film. I don't want to waste any money on it.
I don't know if it's going to be able to, I won't be able to make five bucks from it.
Right. It's from somewhere else. I have to say, that thing is freaking, I didn't get in its way, is basically what helps. And people say that, you know, don't get in your own way. This is a little bit easier to understand. It's like, keep the pipe clear. Don't block it with your ego. Don't say you're going to be shocked, but don't ever say, oh shit, how do I do that? I don't know if I can do that.
You didn't do it to begin with, except that it just came through you and try to get back into that headspace, especially when you go to make a second film or a third film or follow up a success. That's when artists get really crippled. Because sometimes they start tiptoeing around as an artist going like, oh shit, now it's my second film. My first one did really well.
They might not like my second one so much. that's not the headspace you were in when you made the first one. You weren't hesitant like that. You were just, so try to keep that very naive. And that's why I say commit to a body of work. Cause I know a lot of filmmakers get stuck on their second one and then go further because they get crippled by the success of the first one.
And they start asking, Oh shit, how did I do that? How can I do that again? And you get deeper and deeper in a hole you can't get out of.
I'll tell you something that my best advice I ever got early on. I was so fortunate. from an unlikely place. Because he's such a, he sounded like Clint Eastwood when he said it. It was funny when you said that. But I got Desperado and had Antonio Banderas. I brought Antonio to be in it from Europe. Big action movie. And so Spielberg saw it and he said, hey, I want you to do Zorro with Antonio.
So we're working on it for a while. I was working on the pre-production, got to work with Spielberg doing that. It ended up stalling because there was like two studios involved and Amblin was moving or it was some weird thing where, but I got to work with him for about five months, you know?
And I started getting really nervous because it's like, oh shit, you start thinking about, even movies of his that people would say, oh, you know, Temple of Doom's not as good as Raiders. Have you seen Temple of Doom? I'd kill to fucking do that movie. If I could make Zorro as good as that one, the one that people said, it's like, people don't know how good they had it with that guy.
But I started thinking, I even said, man, I just rewatched Temple of Doom last night. I don't know how I'm going to do this horror movie. I've just never done anything like that. You start getting afraid because you go, the second thing, he said, all right, you're going to do fine. But then I started thinking, this guy at that time, you don't know the era, but this was like mid-90s.
He was making the biggest, best movies of all. And people would shit all over this guy. They would throw so much. They were so jealous. Press, audience, everyone was just like hits at him, just throwing rocks at him for everything. Spielberg? Yeah. You can't imagine it now. You had to been at that time. Now everyone has respect for him, but they made him run a fucking gauntlet.
And they were like, Jurassic Park. Yeah. You can't even imagine it now, but you should have seen the climate. It freaked me out. Cause I'm like, Maybe I should just stay under the radar where I've been, you know, not poke my head out so much. Yeah. Cause this guy has a head out and they're unwarranted. You can't even fathom it now. Cause you weren't here at that time. It was crazy.
You would never even think of him that way. I'm glad it changed because back then it was just, it made people not want to be successful. And I made me be worried. Like maybe I shouldn't be go making a movie that has his name on it. That's going to put my head out in a whole different realm of filmmaking at a studio level.
Because even if I make a good movie, if I make a great movie, he's making great movies and he's getting this dog shit. I don't know if I could take it, you know? So I asked him, because you don't know how resilient you can be. So I said, damn it, man. How do you do it? How do you, how do you, what do you do when people just throw rocks at you all day long?
He goes, oh, Robert, you just don't blink. And I was like, whoa. Now I see how he got through it. Just don't blink. Just like, you know what's coming? Don't blink. And to him, it's like a Clint Eastwood line, right? But it was like, you could see he was telling the truth and you could see that's how he did it. He just avoided all criticism by just not blinking.
It's like, it's designed to make you blink and you're just not going to blink because you're committing to a body of work. He just keeps cranking out movies, whatever he feels like doing, he does. And that was like the most part. And it never bothered me again. I just like always kept that in mind. I tell that to my actors. I tell that people that story has traveled.
I even had some little actors who were like starting to get a bit. I said, remember, tell you a couple of things. Some people have told me you're never as good as people say you are. And it never is bad either. George Clooney told me that. He said, remember that. And then the second one, Spielberg, don't blink.
Again, yeah, sort of. I think... if you told me what would be my vision for the future, just committing to a body of work, which I've just kept doing. Like that's, it's about as far as you can see.
Like I wasn't sure because you don't always know what the, you might not have the vision yet because you don't have the information yet. So if you just commit to a body of work, you'll start figuring out more reasons to keep doing that body of work. So when I turned 50, I was like, I guess I could just keep making movies. I mean, I guess that's been good for me. I guess I could just make more.
I kind of done that already, but it's always fun and it's always new. I guess I could make more, but it wasn't a lot of drive, right? It's like, well, I guess I could just keep doing the body. You know, that's not as much as I can't wait to keep doing another season. But I didn't know how to get to that point. So I thought, you know what? I got this job so early. I was in the early 20s.
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