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 I can cut so fast with that. I don't use the mouse for shortcuts.
It's just a tool. It's just a tool. And it's like, it doesn't matter what system it is. It's like, if you can get it to work for you, great. Like there's a lot of problems I have with it that I would, I know are probably fixed on another system, but that they'll have a whole other set of problems. So it's like, well, why bother with that?
You know, there's limitations I think that it has that would need to be fixed, but not for what I'm doing. I mean, I can still do what I need.
Oh, yeah, well, look at my first VCRs. Those things were... I was always known for taking little basic equipment and milking the shit out of it. Pushing the boundaries of what it can do. And now it's flipped. Now you're working on a program and you can spend 10 years on this thing and you're scratching the surface of what it's capable of. It's totally flipped the other way.
I'm not milking anything anymore. I'm barely getting, you know, the smallest capability of it because... I would have to spend a lot of time to figure out all the stuff that it can possibly do. And I'm sure it's all great, fantastic stuff, but what a different world than when I grew up, where it was like, okay, let me splice these two sound things together. And it was so hard to get it to do.
People would be like, you got that movie out of that equipment? Where now it's the other way around. You know, it's like, all this equipment is great. So when people come to me and say, oh God, well, I've only got this camera. I was like, that camera's 10 times better than anything I had for my first 15 years of filmmaking. You have no complaints.
This is like, you can just start now and just start making stuff.
We're working on it. We're definitely working on it. Jim and I both want to make it. That's usually when we meet, we talk about it. I gave him something to read. He's a little busy with his Avatar movie, but I'm going to see him again soon, and we'll see where it's at. But we would love to make another one. We have ideas on how to do it, because it was always built to be a trilogy.
And he sees that there's a lot of love for it. It was just weird because it was a Fox movie and they got bought by Disney, you know, and then so they weren't really making Fox movies because they had enough work with their Disney movies. But now they're starting to make some Fox movies like they did Deadpool and some Fox movies are starting to get made. So...
Time might be right for us to come back and do an Alita.
No, but it's not a bad one. It's a good one. It's a cool one. It's one of the few, like usually I make kids, family kids movies or R-rated action horror movies. And that was the first time I got to do a PG-13 movie, which was kind of like it had a lot of action, but it was for families could watch it too. And it's kind of like the best of all worlds.
This is why you just got to follow your nose and go do something. Jim and I were both into 3D early on. I visited his set for the Terminator 3D ride. Dust till dawn, I wanted to be 3D. Actually, when they got to the bar... If you watch it from that point on, everything's kind of set up for 3D. Everything was shooting into the camera and all this.
But the cameras they had for 3D and film were those old shitty ones that were so bad that I went, okay, we can't do it. But I really wanted people to have to put on glasses when they got into the bar and it was going to turn into a 3D different movie. I got to do that on Spy Kids 3D.
So when I did Spy Kids 3D, I thought, oh, if I get Jim's cameras that he's done for these underwater 3D documentaries, I can make the first digital 3D film for theaters. And so I did, and it seemed like the easiest way was to utilize that when you put on the glasses when you go into a game world.
So there's a green screen, and we shot all the actors on a green screen for all the game stuff, and we could do a lot of 3D stuff coming at kids' faces when they're reaching. My 3D is not like the kind they have in theaters where it's very polite. Mine's like theme park 3D, where kids are doing like that, trying to grab. That's why it was such a big hit. Nobody does 3D like that.
But I wanted that. I want shit falling in people's laps, you know? So you remember, so you go, okay, this is why I'm wearing the glasses. You know, I'm wondering why. And when I went to go make my next movie, so this is how crazy this is. When we shot Spy Kids 3, remember actually how fast they came out? That was in the summer of 2003. A few months later, Once Upon a Time in Mexico came out.
Two number one movies, both were finishing trilogies of mine. And each one starred Antonio, Danny Trejo, Cheech Marin. When I was editing those at the same time, you'd be like, whoa, one movie they're killing people and the other ones are like with the kids going like, hey, family. So it was really, you know, fun.
It was fun to, it's easier to do very different things than to do like two action movies or two family movies at the same time. But I was like, okay, what's my next movie going to be? Shit, how crazy is this? Okay, so Antonio is on the set. I'm going to shoot him out in half a day for Spike is 3D because he's only in the last scenes. on the green screen, shoot him till lunch.
Okay, now go away, put on your Desperado outfit, because we owed some shots for Once Upon a Time Mexico on the green screen. He finished two trilogies in the same day. That's gotta be a first, if ever. No one's ever finished two trilogies in the same day. And it's just kismet. You know, it's just how it happened to happen that day was just luck or the universe or whatever.
But I needed to make it something new now. So I was looking through my bookshelves of inspiration and I picked up my Sin City books, which I've had, I used to be a cartoonist and I always loved how he drew that. Every time I'd see a different edition, I'd buy it, go home and go, oh, I already have this. I got like three copies of this already. And it would just always grab me by the throat.
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