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Robert Rodriguez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3500 total appearances

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

So sometimes it takes the audience a while. So if you've have some kind of failure on something. You don't let it knock you down. Just go. Maybe in 10 years, they'll think it's great. I'm just going to commit to making a body of work, a body of work. Some will succeed. Some will overperform. Some will underperform. It's not your job. You just want to be a creative person. Just create.

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

So sometimes it takes the audience a while. So if you've have some kind of failure on something. You don't let it knock you down. Just go. Maybe in 10 years, they'll think it's great. I'm just going to commit to making a body of work, a body of work. Some will succeed. Some will overperform. Some will underperform. It's not your job. You just want to be a creative person. Just create.

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

I tell you, just create. Stop thinking about movie per movie and worrying so much about each one or project to project. If you're a business person, just commit to making a body of work like an artist would do. And you don't know what the masterpieces are going to be or which, you know, someone's going to come and say, oh, that one that bombed, there was some really creative stuff in there.

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

I tell you, just create. Stop thinking about movie per movie and worrying so much about each one or project to project. If you're a business person, just commit to making a body of work like an artist would do. And you don't know what the masterpieces are going to be or which, you know, someone's going to come and say, oh, that one that bombed, there was some really creative stuff in there.

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

I tell you, just create. Stop thinking about movie per movie and worrying so much about each one or project to project. If you're a business person, just commit to making a body of work like an artist would do. And you don't know what the masterpieces are going to be or which, you know, someone's going to come and say, oh, that one that bombed, there was some really creative stuff in there.

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

And it's not for you to decide. You just go and do it.

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

And it's not for you to decide. You just go and do it.

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

And it's not for you to decide. You just go and do it.

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

Sometimes it's right there, and then sometimes you come back, revisit it later, because you may not have had some information you have now that makes you look at it a lot differently. Like when I did, I just did the audio book for Rebel Without a Crew. Yeah. Thank you for that, by the way. I hadn't read it since I wrote it. Yeah. So I didn't remember a lot of the details.

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

Sometimes it's right there, and then sometimes you come back, revisit it later, because you may not have had some information you have now that makes you look at it a lot differently. Like when I did, I just did the audio book for Rebel Without a Crew. Yeah. Thank you for that, by the way. I hadn't read it since I wrote it. Yeah. So I didn't remember a lot of the details.

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

Sometimes it's right there, and then sometimes you come back, revisit it later, because you may not have had some information you have now that makes you look at it a lot differently. Like when I did, I just did the audio book for Rebel Without a Crew. Yeah. Thank you for that, by the way. I hadn't read it since I wrote it. Yeah. So I didn't remember a lot of the details.

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

I voiced it. So I was reading it real time.

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

I voiced it. So I was reading it real time.

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

I voiced it. So I was reading it real time.

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

Yeah. I can't believe how crazy that story is. I forgot a lot of details. And when you're younger, you know, when you're 21, 22. Six months feels like six years. I didn't realize how short that window was until I reread it and how impossible most that is. But you see some places where... a setup falls in my lap and then pays off immediately in a big way, like magic over and over again.

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

Yeah. I can't believe how crazy that story is. I forgot a lot of details. And when you're younger, you know, when you're 21, 22. Six months feels like six years. I didn't realize how short that window was until I reread it and how impossible most that is. But you see some places where... a setup falls in my lap and then pays off immediately in a big way, like magic over and over again.

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

Yeah. I can't believe how crazy that story is. I forgot a lot of details. And when you're younger, you know, when you're 21, 22. Six months feels like six years. I didn't realize how short that window was until I reread it and how impossible most that is. But you see some places where... a setup falls in my lap and then pays off immediately in a big way, like magic over and over again.

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

It's clear I don't know what I'm doing. It's clear the universe is just pushing you places. So you can't fight it. Because I remember I was really disappointed. And it says in the diary, I'm really bummed that I go home that Christmas not having sold it to the Spanish home video market, which was my goal. I walked home penniless and I was like, Merry Christmas. I feel like a freaking failure.

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

It's clear I don't know what I'm doing. It's clear the universe is just pushing you places. So you can't fight it. Because I remember I was really disappointed. And it says in the diary, I'm really bummed that I go home that Christmas not having sold it to the Spanish home video market, which was my goal. I walked home penniless and I was like, Merry Christmas. I feel like a freaking failure.

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

It's clear I don't know what I'm doing. It's clear the universe is just pushing you places. So you can't fight it. Because I remember I was really disappointed. And it says in the diary, I'm really bummed that I go home that Christmas not having sold it to the Spanish home video market, which was my goal. I walked home penniless and I was like, Merry Christmas. I feel like a freaking failure.