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 they may very well want to, but they're getting hurt by the fear.
Doing it to yourself and by doing that to other people. If they would just commit to a body of work, don't blink, and just keep making shit, they'll get somewhere. That's great advice. Commit to a body of work. A body of work. Like, look at someone, I mentioned this, and a friend of mine, a businessman called me and said, wow, that really spoke to me.
You know, I tend to look at all the different businesses that I've created that failed and instead of looking at the whole body of work. And I fixate on the ones that didn't work. And it's like, you never know what's going to work or not. That's not your concern. Just go make shit. Follow your instinct. Because again, maybe that one that didn't work is your four rooms.
And you get two other great ideas out of it. I've forgotten that Dustal Dawn came out of that as well. So that's the third one out of that four rooms. That thing gave and gave and gave.
Really? So when he first wrote it, he couldn't get made because people... Okay, so this is what happened. The effects company hires him, and they said, we want a movie that'll... showcase our effects in this vampire bar. It's about two brothers that go to a vampire bar. Quentin starts writing. He starts writing Quentin style. He gets way into the brothers.
So much into the brothers that it turns into like a Desperate Hours type movie for half the movie. He waits half the movie to get to the bar. So now, for financiers, it's now like a mixed bag. It's like two movies in one, right? But it was a negative then. It was like, this movie's all wrong. It's like suddenly they're, it's one thing and then suddenly it turns into a vampire bar.
We can't make this. But then Pulp Fiction comes out. And now everybody wants to make it. Oh, it's two movies in one. It's great. You know, a whole different perspective change. What a little success I'll do for you. Four Rooms. Oh, Four Rooms. Oh, yes, Four Rooms. Four times the fun, you know. So you never know.
So I told Quentin, let's make it right now because we made it to our next movie right after Four Rooms. So Desperado, Four Rooms. So Desperado came out in August 1995. Four Rooms in December. Dust Till Dawn was in January. That's how fast those came out. We were working that fast back then. So I said, let's make this right now because you're starting to steal from the script.
That Ezekiel speech that Sam Jackson says in Pulp Fiction, that's from the original Dust Till Dawn script. Really? He just took it. He was pulling stuff out of it because it was just not going to get made. Oh, no, he's scrapping an old car. So I said, before it gets picked clean, let's go make this thing. And we'll shoot it now. We'll shoot it right now. Wow. And it was so fun. It was so fun.
I loved that movie. It was so fun. Cheech is so great. You know, we did a table read. When we have a table read with your actors, you only have your main actors there. So sometimes you'll assign other parts to other people who are there.
Yeah.
So he starts reading and he does each one, you know, it's because in media and he does everything in a different voice. And we're like, by the end, I was like, wow, he should play all three characters. And so I asked Quentin, Quentin goes, Hey, what if we get Cheech to play all three guys? I was thinking the same thing. So I go and tell Cheech, Cheech is just freaking hilarious.
And he goes, Hey man, you're going to play all three characters. Do I get paid three times? This is why I love having comedians on the set, you know, because we're out there shooting that desert scene, you know, at the end.
when the cheech comes and the whole place is burned down it's 125 degrees in the shade we're in barstow in a dry lake bed so freaking hot we're all just like not moving so i'm gonna have to go get something we're all just cheeches like this in a suit with a hat he goes hey robert can I, this is going to be a while. Can I go to my trailer?
I was like, oh man, by the time you go, this guy's going to be back and we'll have to start. We should just stay right here. Okay. I'll go into my mental trailer. Okay. Ice cold drinks, air conditioning. Lines up the whole set. Okay. This guy's going to be in every movie. He's been in 10 movies of mine because there's that attitude.
You like that attitude of somebody who can find levity and torture. Because sometimes movies can be torturous sometimes. So having people like that that are really on your team that can really lighten up a set is just the best.
You did animated movies. Yeah, there's a similarity to them. I'm still that cartoonist. So what they all have is they're all comedic. Like, even the action movies are kind of just fun. I mean, think of Desperado. It's like a James Bond movie. He's got a guitar case that fires missiles. He's got this one that's got a weapon design. Spy Kids is very much the same thing.
It's just some are for big kids and some are for little kids. Even Sin City. Yeah, even Sin City is very playful. The Sin City one was so dark. I remember the first book, the one that Mickey Rourke plays. It was so dark. I was going like, oh, my God, it's going to be dark. I have to add some levity to this. And Mickey will bring humor to it. And it's the funniest episode. It's really funny.
But he's in the book. It's just like, oh, my God, he's just killing everybody. But you're really with him because of the way he portrayed it. We didn't change very much. We just added, you know, some humor to it. And that gallows humor, you know, really.
Oh, that's. Yeah, that was a good one. That's a really good use of color.
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