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Robert Rodriguez: uncertainty

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

“I bet there’s some other job out there that exists that I don’t even know about because I don’t know other jobs.”

— Robert Rodriguez

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Speaker
Robert Rodriguez
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
17 Apr 2025
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

Transcript context

…Or is it just this fog? I did. I did. I wasn’t sure because you don’t always know with the… You might not have the vision yet because you don’t have the information yet. So if you just commit to a body of work, you’ll start figuring out more reasons to keep doing that body of work. So when I turned 50, I was like, I guess I could just keep making movies. I mean, I guess that’s been good for me. I guess I could just make more. I kind of done that already, but it’s always fun and it’s always new and I guess I could make, but it wasn’t a lot of drive, right? It’s like, well, I guess I could just keep doing that but, that’s not as much as I can’t wait to keep doing another season. But I didn’t know how to get to that point. So I thought, you know what? I got to this job so early, I was in the early twenties. I bet there’s some other job out there that exists that I don’t even know about because I don’t know other jobs. So I looked up, you’re not going to believe it, but I literally bought Jobs for Dummies. Nice.…

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