Robert Rodriguez: evaluation

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…Yeah. Yeah. Your brain doesn’t remember. But when I pull up old home movies, I show my kids that I just found and they’re like, they don’t remember it. I don’t remember filming it. And it’s like new adventures of. It becomes iconic and it sticks in our head. And all our jokes are based on old things that we used to do and say. So living is reliving. So keeping a journal is very important. Because I found that anything that passed 15 years, it’s like I’m reading someone else’s journal. I’m like, “I didn’t even know that’s where I got that guitar. I thought I bought that guitar. It was given to me? It’s like a $10,000 Santana… It was given to me my birthday by the studio that I made that movie? How did I not remember that?” It’s crazy what you don’t remember. And the brain is very, it’s not a very reliable computer. It’s made out of fucking butter. That’s a really profound idea that so much of our life is lived through replaying our memories and then watching stuff is one of the ways to refresh, give some more texture and details.…

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