#2310 - Robert Rodriguez

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Robert Rodriguez is a director, producer, and screenwriter known for films including "Desperado," "From Dusk Till Dawn," and "Machete." He is the founder of Troublemaker Studios and Brass Knuckles Films. www.brassknucklefilms.com This episode is brought to you by Visible. Join now at visible.com/rogan This video is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/JRE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Joe Rogan podcast checking out.
0:04.0	The Joe Rogan Experience.
0:06.1	Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night all day.
0:12.4	Oh, man.
0:13.0	Very, very nice to meet you.
0:14.5	Incredible to meet you.
0:15.6	I'm a fucking gigantic fan.
0:17.1	Man, I appreciate that.
0:18.1	I just love what you've done because like anybody who could start
0:22.5	their career off and make a movie for $7,000 is a hero. That's just an incredible accomplishment
0:30.4	to make a movie that people still watch and talk about today for seven grand. It was an experience
0:36.8	for sure.
0:41.9	I had a really good plan and it backfired.
0:48.2	So I tried to right away when it worked in a different way, I wanted to share that experience.
0:49.1	I wrote a book called Rebel Without a Crew that really inspired filmmakers.
0:52.8	You did the audio for it too.
0:54.1	Just recently, I couldn't believe I hadn't read it since I wrote it and I had for without a crew that really inspired filmmakers because you did the audio for it too just recently i
0:55.0	couldn't believe i hadn't read it since i wrote it and i had forgotten a lot of the details and now i can
0:59.8	see why it inspired so many people because it you know when you're in your early 20s six months feels like
1:06.6	six years right so when you read it now and go my God, from inception to making it penniless
1:12.5	by myself to toast to the town, it's like that. It was unbelievable. I couldn't wait to shout
1:18.2	from the rooftops to all the other filmmakers like me who thought they couldn't get in. How I did it
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