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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 don’t want to waste any money on it. I don’t know if it’s going to be, I won’t be able to make five bucks from it.”

— Robert Rodriguez

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

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…Yeah. Watch the edits, you’ll see it open. Now it’s a completely different case with the guns. And when he goes to cut it and close it cuts to the other one and he goes out. That’s how I did that whole movie. Again it was a practice film. I don’t want to waste any money on it. I don’t know if it’s going to be, I won’t be able to make five bucks from it. Yeah, but you’re one of the few great directors where both the movie’s genius and the process of making it is creative genius. It’s like fun to watch both, to know of both.…

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