Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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30 published records
01 / recommendation
“Yeah, anyone interested in unlocking their creativities, they’re not even just filmmaking, I highly recommend that show and I highly recommend kind of the follow-on show, which is where you make Red 11.”
02 / uncertainty
“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.”
03 / commitment
“I said, “I’m going to go there, and I bet I’ll learn more about directing by watching this guy paint, than I will by watching another director.”
04 / belief
“” I believe, because I do so many different jobs, I’ve learned this over the years.”
05 / uncertainty
“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.”
06 / belief
“I think when you say creativity, some of that is being a rebel, not listening to the experts.”
07 / belief
“Can we actually pause on that because I think Bedhead has a really great, really unique story shot in a really unique way.”
08 / uncertainty
“I don’t know shit about cameras and you roll in and then there’s all the experts almost talking down to you and telling you how things are supposed to be.”
09 / belief
“I’m going to go do it.” Because I think he started cutting on Premiere, but I’m sure it’s all better now.”
10 / belief
““Oh my God,” I found that old video, it was like, “Oh my God, I already made a movie of them in black and white.”
11 / belief
“I think of all the art forms of all the art mediums that it just has so many different components.”
12 / belief
“I got out of my way, because seeing him get out of his own way, I think that’s why sometimes people need to go to school for stuff like that.”
13 / evaluation
“Pick the colors you want. Doesn’t matter how crazy they are, whatever’s speaking to you, you lay it down.”
14 / belief
“Again, yeah, I think if you just told me what would be my vision for the future, just committing to a body of work, which I’ve just kept doing.”
15 / uncertainty
“We don’t know why it did that because it’s radio-controlled and we can’t tell because we’re shooting film.”
16 / belief
“I think you’ve spoken about that filmmakers, especially early on in their journey, critics and the audience can destroy them, meaning it creates too much of a burden, too much, just wear them down to where they’re almost scared to be creative.”
17 / belief
“I think what’s also really powerful because I’ve done that, is to do a high effort description of where your life is just for yourself.”
18 / uncertainty
“Robert, put me on a grease,” that was throughout that whole movie. I don’t know how we did that.”
19 / uncertainty
“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.”
20 / belief
“You are just a fan enjoying the scene when it’s done well. But I think there’s an aspect, if I were to put myself in the headspace of the actor, they want you as the audience to earn that happiness.”
21 / evaluation
“Because I found that anything that passed 15 years, it’s like I’m reading someone else’s journal.”
22 / evaluation
“I wrote a paper for a Latin American studies class, gave it to the teacher and he said, “Wow, you’re going to be rich and famous in four years based on what I read.”
23 / preference
“I started just doing my own visual effects like that early on because I knew technology was changing so fast that I would need to just know how to do it like a magician.”
24 / preference
“You just come up with creative solutions better, easier because you were just solving crazy creative solutions in the other one, what paint medium do I use?”
25 / recommendation
“Read the manuals, take the lessons. It frees you up because then you can go do like I just showed you in that demo, you are able to now be a technical person and creative and then you’re unstoppable.”
26 / recommendation
“You’ll get to it a lot faster with a filter. That’s the beauty of a filter is that now you’ve just shrunk your target and now you can hit that target and people are coming up with ideas because now they’ve got proximity and they’ve got a reason to come up with the idea and they’ve got a deadline, which is the best thing you can do is have a deadline because when you have a deadline, you can freaking move mountains.”
27 / recommendation
“Just start doing the action and it’s going to come through and the ideas will come and the answers will come because it’s not you. And if you can take your ego out of life, you’ll be blessed with this never ending flow of ideas because don’t take ownership for it and know that if it’s not coming out, it’s because you’re just clogging it because this thing’s got endless ideas.”
28 / preference
“: So my instinct was to raise my hand. We go make that movie because I love short films.”
29 / prediction
“So I’m still going to have more elements to show how you can do camera tricks and stuff with no money. And the old days make it for less than $7,000, which I think were like $5,000 mainly because I had a lot of actors I wanted to pay, but the movie itself can make it for nothing.”
30 / recommendation
“” So I was like, I guess I got the best job. But then I started working with my kids when we did, I had a TV show called Rebel Without a Crew based on that, where I found filmmakers who had only made a short film that hadn’t made a feature.”