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Robert Rodriguez

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#465 โ€“ Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

You just start writing in the ones you do know. Like, okay, I know at some point she's going to betray him. Or he's going to think she does. She betrays him. Okay, that's in the middle somewhere. The other ones will come.

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

You just start writing in the ones you do know. Like, okay, I know at some point she's going to betray him. Or he's going to think she does. She betrays him. Okay, that's in the middle somewhere. The other ones will come.

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

I can, yeah. But for now, I felt like if I really want, the story's telling me now what it is. I didn't know I was going to make a Genesis story. I wanted to do the road warrior guy, but the road warrior, he lost his family. So really to propel him to become a guy who has a guitar case full of weapons, he has to lose everything. So he needs a ghost. So this is a Genesis story of a character.

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

I can, yeah. But for now, I felt like if I really want, the story's telling me now what it is. I didn't know I was going to make a Genesis story. I wanted to do the road warrior guy, but the road warrior, he lost his family. So really to propel him to become a guy who has a guitar case full of weapons, he has to lose everything. So he needs a ghost. So this is a Genesis story of a character.

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

I can, yeah. But for now, I felt like if I really want, the story's telling me now what it is. I didn't know I was going to make a Genesis story. I wanted to do the road warrior guy, but the road warrior, he lost his family. So really to propel him to become a guy who has a guitar case full of weapons, he has to lose everything. So he needs a ghost. So this is a Genesis story of a character.

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

Well, look, Bruce Wayne lost his parents. You could say, well, does the parents have to die? Well, no, but it's not going to propel him like It's not going to drive him like that thing. So it's just, it's just coming to me. So this is my other trick. And this is the main thing you got to learn about. If you take any way, this isn't me doing it.

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

Well, look, Bruce Wayne lost his parents. You could say, well, does the parents have to die? Well, no, but it's not going to propel him like It's not going to drive him like that thing. So it's just, it's just coming to me. So this is my other trick. And this is the main thing you got to learn about. If you take any way, this isn't me doing it.

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

Well, look, Bruce Wayne lost his parents. You could say, well, does the parents have to die? Well, no, but it's not going to propel him like It's not going to drive him like that thing. So it's just, it's just coming to me. So this is my other trick. And this is the main thing you got to learn about. If you take any way, this isn't me doing it.

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

I totally believe that because when you start doing this, you go, where are these answers coming from? I'm asking the right question, but why, how come the answers just keep coming like this? I believe, because I do so many different jobs, I've learned this over the years.

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

I totally believe that because when you start doing this, you go, where are these answers coming from? I'm asking the right question, but why, how come the answers just keep coming like this? I believe, because I do so many different jobs, I've learned this over the years.

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

I totally believe that because when you start doing this, you go, where are these answers coming from? I'm asking the right question, but why, how come the answers just keep coming like this? I believe, because I do so many different jobs, I've learned this over the years.

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

When I was in 2002, I was like, how is it that I'm the production designer, the composer, which I don't even know how to read or write music, and I'm writing orchestral score, and I'm doing the editing, and I'm doing the cinematography. I haven't been trained for any of these. I never went to school for these specifically. Must be something about creativity. So I went on Amazon. It's 2002.

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

When I was in 2002, I was like, how is it that I'm the production designer, the composer, which I don't even know how to read or write music, and I'm writing orchestral score, and I'm doing the editing, and I'm doing the cinematography. I haven't been trained for any of these. I never went to school for these specifically. Must be something about creativity. So I went on Amazon. It's 2002.

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

When I was in 2002, I was like, how is it that I'm the production designer, the composer, which I don't even know how to read or write music, and I'm writing orchestral score, and I'm doing the editing, and I'm doing the cinematography. I haven't been trained for any of these. I never went to school for these specifically. Must be something about creativity. So I went on Amazon. It's 2002.

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

I look up creative books. Anything that has creativity in the title. I just ordered it. And I've got a bunch of books on creativity. And I was reading them through. One of them was like really speaking to me. Yeah, that's it. That's the process. And then it says gels and mediums. And I'm like, oh, this is a book specifically about painting.

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

I look up creative books. Anything that has creativity in the title. I just ordered it. And I've got a bunch of books on creativity. And I was reading them through. One of them was like really speaking to me. Yeah, that's it. That's the process. And then it says gels and mediums. And I'm like, oh, this is a book specifically about painting.

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

I look up creative books. Anything that has creativity in the title. I just ordered it. And I've got a bunch of books on creativity. And I was reading them through. One of them was like really speaking to me. Yeah, that's it. That's the process. And then it says gels and mediums. And I'm like, oh, this is a book specifically about painting.

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

But it applies to music, editing, cinematography, writing. It's all the same. So that's when I realized that. creativity is 90% of any of those jobs. The technical part of setting up the cameras, of writing a script in format, or reading or writing music, that's 10% of that. How many musicians don't read or write music and they're fantastic? It's because 90% What they do is creative.

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

But it applies to music, editing, cinematography, writing. It's all the same. So that's when I realized that. creativity is 90% of any of those jobs. The technical part of setting up the cameras, of writing a script in format, or reading or writing music, that's 10% of that. How many musicians don't read or write music and they're fantastic? It's because 90% What they do is creative.

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

But it applies to music, editing, cinematography, writing. It's all the same. So that's when I realized that. creativity is 90% of any of those jobs. The technical part of setting up the cameras, of writing a script in format, or reading or writing music, that's 10% of that. How many musicians don't read or write music and they're fantastic? It's because 90% What they do is creative.