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Robert Rodriguez: evaluation

17 Apr 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #465 – Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, Desperado, El Mariachi, Alita, and Filmmaking

“Pick the colors you want. Doesn’t matter how crazy they are, whatever’s speaking to you, you lay it down.”

— Robert Rodriguez

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Robert Rodriguez
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evaluation
Recorded
17 Apr 2025
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…And so there’s so many ways to fuck things up, to learn from fuck-ups. But any of the disciplines, if you add those to it, I teach my actors to paint in-between takes. We’ll go and I’ll take a picture of them in character. I show them a canvas, I show them paint. You don’t need to know how to paint. This is to show you the brush is going to know where to go, you just got to pick it up. Pick the colors you want. Doesn’t matter how crazy they are, whatever’s speaking to you, you lay it down. I’ll show you some of the pictures. You’re not going to believe the masterworks these actors did in a day. Nice.…

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