Rebel without a crew, or, How a 23-year-old filmmaker with $7,000 became a Hollywood player/Robert Rodriguez
In his own exceptionally witty and straight-shooting style, Robert Rodriguez discloses all the unique strategies and innovative techniques he used to make El Mariachi on the cheap - including filming before noon so he wouldn't have to buy the actors lunch. You'll see firsthand Rodriguez's whirlwind, "Mariachi-style" filmmaking, where creativity - not money - is used to solve problems. Culminating in Robert Rodriguez's "Ten-Minute Film School," this book may render conventional film-school programs obsolete. Rodriguez also offers an insider's view of the amazing courtship he enjoyed with Hollywood's A-list. It's an entertaining tour of Hollywood's deal-making machine as he navigates you through studio meetings, pitch sessions, and power lunches with the biggest names in the industry. Candidly divulging all the tactics and tempting lures the warring studios used to win him over, he admits that he barely escaped with his movie and his soul intact
Print Book, English, 1995
Plume, New York, 1995