Robert Rodriguez: uncertainty

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…It’s incredible. She’s like, “Okay.” So she shows up. I had all the sets like a conveyor belt, right next to each other. Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. She’s in the car. That’s why she had me do her music video for Rain On Me, later. She said, “We should just go to Austin. Robert, put me on a grease,” that was throughout that whole movie. I don’t know how we did that. It was half a day. She was there half a day. I did the same for Sin City, too. I was like, “I have a set here, waiting for you. If you’re on tour in Houston, just drive in to Austin, I’ll shoot you out in half a day. You get to be in a scene with Joseph Gordon-Levitt.” “Sure.” She came down. So wait, how do you take Robert De Niro, how do you take Lady Gaga, and solve the puzzle of all the scenes they have to be in? How do we shoot them quickly, efficiently, conveniently?…

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