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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

Now, I believe that that same person, even if they only do music, could literally jump from job to job creatively and do a superior job than most technicians.

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

Now, I believe that that same person, even if they only do music, could literally jump from job to job creatively and do a superior job than most technicians.

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

Now, I believe that that same person, even if they only do music, could literally jump from job to job creatively and do a superior job than most technicians.

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

Yeah. Well, you're going on your creativity, which is what is that? That's like an, do you consider yourself a creative person? I think you play guitar. Yeah. Guitar, piano. Yeah. You play piano. Okay. Do you could be, would you call yourself a creative person? Yeah, I think so. Good.

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

Yeah. Well, you're going on your creativity, which is what is that? That's like an, do you consider yourself a creative person? I think you play guitar. Yeah. Guitar, piano. Yeah. You play piano. Okay. Do you could be, would you call yourself a creative person? Yeah, I think so. Good.

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

Yeah. Well, you're going on your creativity, which is what is that? That's like an, do you consider yourself a creative person? I think you play guitar. Yeah. Guitar, piano. Yeah. You play piano. Okay. Do you could be, would you call yourself a creative person? Yeah, I think so. Good.

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

I would just suggest to anybody is just own it and just say, when I do so many different jobs, It sounds crazy when they would introduce me, hey, Robert Rodriguez, he does this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I get tired just hearing that list. But when I think about it, there's really only one thing I do, and I live a creative life.

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

I would just suggest to anybody is just own it and just say, when I do so many different jobs, It sounds crazy when they would introduce me, hey, Robert Rodriguez, he does this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I get tired just hearing that list. But when I think about it, there's really only one thing I do, and I live a creative life.

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

I would just suggest to anybody is just own it and just say, when I do so many different jobs, It sounds crazy when they would introduce me, hey, Robert Rodriguez, he does this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, I get tired just hearing that list. But when I think about it, there's really only one thing I do, and I live a creative life.

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

And when you live a creative life, that means anything that has to do with creativity, whether it's filming or piano or guitar or sculpting, you can do it. You can take it on and do it because it teaches you more about your main job. I become a better director by doing all those jobs. Because when somebody just does one job, they barely know that job. You have to do more to learn about creativity.

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

And when you live a creative life, that means anything that has to do with creativity, whether it's filming or piano or guitar or sculpting, you can do it. You can take it on and do it because it teaches you more about your main job. I become a better director by doing all those jobs. Because when somebody just does one job, they barely know that job. You have to do more to learn about creativity.

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

And when you live a creative life, that means anything that has to do with creativity, whether it's filming or piano or guitar or sculpting, you can do it. You can take it on and do it because it teaches you more about your main job. I become a better director by doing all those jobs. Because when somebody just does one job, they barely know that job. You have to do more to learn about creativity.

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

This is the main thing I learned was that I'm writing music for an orchestra. I'm like, I don't even know what I'm doing. Why is that coming up? I don't feel like I'm doing it. I feel like I picked up the pen. I feel like I had the idea to do the cards, but then when everything just starts coming out so quickly, that's how fast I wrote that movie. I really feel like something else has taken over.

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

This is the main thing I learned was that I'm writing music for an orchestra. I'm like, I don't even know what I'm doing. Why is that coming up? I don't feel like I'm doing it. I feel like I picked up the pen. I feel like I had the idea to do the cards, but then when everything just starts coming out so quickly, that's how fast I wrote that movie. I really feel like something else has taken over.

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

This is the main thing I learned was that I'm writing music for an orchestra. I'm like, I don't even know what I'm doing. Why is that coming up? I don't feel like I'm doing it. I feel like I picked up the pen. I feel like I had the idea to do the cards, but then when everything just starts coming out so quickly, that's how fast I wrote that movie. I really feel like something else has taken over.

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

This is what my belief is. Because I hear it in different realms. You ask Keith Richards, how do you come up with these riffs? He goes, I don't. They're floating around the sky, and I pull them out first. You ask Jimmy Vaughn, how do you play guitar? Those solos. He goes, it's like a radio. Once you get a tune just right, you can't even believe what's coming through.

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

This is what my belief is. Because I hear it in different realms. You ask Keith Richards, how do you come up with these riffs? He goes, I don't. They're floating around the sky, and I pull them out first. You ask Jimmy Vaughn, how do you play guitar? Those solos. He goes, it's like a radio. Once you get a tune just right, you can't even believe what's coming through.

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

This is what my belief is. Because I hear it in different realms. You ask Keith Richards, how do you come up with these riffs? He goes, I don't. They're floating around the sky, and I pull them out first. You ask Jimmy Vaughn, how do you play guitar? Those solos. He goes, it's like a radio. Once you get a tune just right, you can't even believe what's coming through.

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

So I believe, I call it the creative spirit. There's a spirit assigned to all of us that's creative. that doesn't have hands. It needs you to pick up the pen, pull out the cards. And then when you start getting in the flow and you're like, whoa, it's writing. It's that's that.

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

So I believe, I call it the creative spirit. There's a spirit assigned to all of us that's creative. that doesn't have hands. It needs you to pick up the pen, pull out the cards. And then when you start getting in the flow and you're like, whoa, it's writing. It's that's that.