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Escape from New York
John Carpenter (inferred)
“one of my favorites since I was a kid”
“Like Escape from New York's one of my favorites since I was a kid... Skate for New York has the best example of a ticking time clock”— Robert Rodriguez
The guest's own work
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Rebel Without a Crew
Robert Rodriguez
“a lot of people read my book, Rebels Had a Crew and told me, Oh, it made me be a filmmaker.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Rebel Without a Crew (audiobook)
Robert Rodriguez
“I highly recommend people because you comment, you add additional commas to it. It's great.”— Lex Fridman
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El Mariachi
Robert Rodriguez
“I highly recommend people go back and watch that movie. It's it's just an incredible movie.”— Lex Fridman
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Desperado
Robert Rodriguez
“I did Desperado and it had Antonio Bendettas. I brought Antonio to be in it from Europe. Big action movie.”— Robert Rodriguez
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From Dusk Till Dawn
Robert Rodriguez
“6 months later, Dust Told Dawn came out. So I I I liked how much it looked so much that in Dust Told Dawn I did it again.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Four Rooms
Robert Rodriguez
“I made a movie called Four Rooms. It's didn't make any money, right? When Quinton asked me, hey, do you want to make a movie with me”— Robert Rodriguez
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Sin City
Robert Rodriguez
“have to ask you about Boston City. One of my favorite films of all time. It was a visually stunning world.”— Lex Fridman
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Bedhead
Robert Rodriguez
“Bed Head was my first time using a film camera. It was a windup film camera I got in film school.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Spy Kids
Robert Rodriguez
“I stumbled upon Spy Kids that way. Like I wanted to make these action movies in my backyard.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Machete
Robert Rodriguez
“I had an idea for Machete then. It wasn't the same story.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Red 11
Robert Rodriguez
“I highly recommend that show and I highly recommend this the kind of the follow on show which is where you make Red 11.”— Lex Fridman
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We Can Be Heroes
Robert Rodriguez
“But we can be Heroes was a Netflix movie where they asked me to make a spy kids type thing... It's the most watched and rewatched movie in Netflix history.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Alita: Battle Angel
Robert Rodriguez
“Now I have to ask you about Alita. So, you've done so many incredibly innovative projects. This is one of them. It turned out to be this visual masterpiece.”— Lex Fridman
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The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl
Robert Rodriguez
“I shot a whole other movie that year. I shot the adventures of Shark Poor and Lava Girl with kids that came out two months after Sin City”— Robert Rodriguez
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Robert Rodriguez
“Once Upon a Time Mexico came out. Two number one movies. Both were finishing trilogies of mine.”— Robert Rodriguez
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The Faculty
Robert Rodriguez
“There's a line in the faculty that's was my line to my coaches when they would say, You got to come run with everybody.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Robert Rodriguez
“I got to do that on Spy Kids 3D. So when I did Spy Kids 3D, I thought... I can make the first digital 3D film for theaters.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Road Racers
Robert Rodriguez
“I made a whole another movie with her in English called Road Racers. It was my second film for Showtime.”— Robert Rodriguez
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Jobs for Dummies
Wiley (inferred)
“I bet there's some other job out there that exists that I don't even know about... I literally bought jobs for dummies.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino (inferred)
“I had seen his movie already. My first film festival was a few months before that, the Tellyide Film Festival and Reservoir Dogs was there”— Robert Rodriguez
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Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino (inferred)
“he said, You're going to like my next film I'm writing right now, Pulp Fiction.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino (inferred)
“the next time I heard him laugh that way was at the own premiere for Kill Bill. We're watching Kill Bill and he's laughing like it's somebody else's movie.”— Robert Rodriguez
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City on Fire
Ringo Lam (inferred)
“He he borrowed from this movie Hong Kong action film called City on Fire. It's about these guys that are all criminals and they kill each other”— Robert Rodriguez
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Die Hard
John McTiernan (inferred)
“what are your favorite films? Like Die Hard. He's a cop, so he's still capable, but he's not Superman.”— Robert Rodriguez
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John Wick
Chad Stahelski (inferred)
“like John Wick only cost 20 million the first one. Second one was 40. Third one was 80.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Leon: The Professional
Luc Besson (inferred)
“I think Leon the professional that's what's character now that when I say we're going to do action movies”— Robert Rodriguez
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Predator
John McTiernan (inferred)
“What about like Predator? Predator is a sci-fi action film, so that's kind of a hybrid, which I like”— Robert Rodriguez
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Under Siege
Andrew Davis (inferred)
“It was like under siege all like a regular guy who's really actually has some training on a ship”— Robert Rodriguez
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Taken
Pierre Morel (inferred)
“what about Taken? That's a great one. That's a great character who is superhuman. Yeah. Who's also retired”— Robert Rodriguez
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The Terminator
James Cameron (inferred)
“The original Terminator just came out in 4K. I've been watching it again. It looks like better than most movies look today.”— Robert Rodriguez
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The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola (inferred)
“some of them like Godfather is really not about is not action. It's not an action movie. Drama that has some action”— Robert Rodriguez
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Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese (inferred)
“Good Fellas. I mean, there's a lot of dynamic action, but there really not action first. That's really a character type piece.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Aliens
James Cameron (inferred)
“aliens, you know, we got to get off this planet now cuz this whole thing's going to blow up. You know, they like there's a timeline.”— Robert Rodriguez
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The Thing
John Carpenter (inferred)
“Think of like The Thing by John Carpenter. You put that movie out the same weekend as ET. That thing bombed.”— Robert Rodriguez
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Steven Spielberg (inferred)
“You put that movie out the same weekend as ET. That thing bombed.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Star Wars
George Lucas (inferred)
“that happened with George Lucas, too, with Star Wars. Everybody saw that movie and was like, Poor George.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Steven Spielberg (inferred)
“Temple of Doom is not as good as Raiders. Have you seen Temple of Doom? I'd been killed to fucking do that movie.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Titanic
James Cameron (inferred)
“there's like a real emotional love story there that he put into Titanic, that he put into Avatar.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Avatar
James Cameron (inferred)
“He was showing me the Scriptman for Avatar, which there was no technology for that. He was already doing stuff that didn't exist.”— Robert Rodriguez
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
James Cameron (inferred)
“when I was doing Terminator 2, they wouldn't even let me put the Bad to the Bone song in Terminator 2”— Robert Rodriguez
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