Robert Rodriguez: uncertainty

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…That’s so cool to hear. … like remember on Dusk Till Dawn, Michael Parks in the opening scene, he’s talking about the two guys that are running around killing people just before he gets shot. And I just start doing this slow zoom. I remember it was take eight, start doing this slow zoom on him. And I’m like, I hope I get all the way up to where it stops zooming when he finishes that speech, because there’s no set way, and I don’t know how he’s going to say it. But you’re just locked almost telepathically. And has he delivered? There’s no edits. He’s just going, “Yeah, they killed four rangers, two hostages.” It’s just like, wow. And you’re just so pulled in. I’m just like, oh my God. And then it stopped. It’s like I ran out of zoom right as he finished that speech. So how can a director, because there’s a lot of great directors that stay-…

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