Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

It's mostly just a repurposed journal, but the journal as is is still pretty interesting! Rodriguez's approach to filmmaking is very inspiring.

If you're a creator, read this. While it's obviously about film making, anyone in a creative endeavor, especially if you're choosing to not wait for the gatekeepers of your industry, will love the story. I LOL'ed more a few times, and found myself nodding at some of his observations.

This is a great story about how a kid that liked making movies ended up making a movie that landed in Hollywood. Along the way he decides that film school is for people that want to work for people that make movies. In his opinion, the best way to learn how to make movies is not to go to film school but to make movies!

The book is excerpts from his journal which is a style I don't normally like, but it was a pretty fun and easy read.

Diary entries for Rodriguez from the point at which he conceives of doing an extremely low budget film, through his drug testing to make money for the film, filming, selling the film in Hollywood, and the explosive reaction to the film afterward.

Lots of encouragement for other film makers.

Film director Mat Whitecross has chosen to discuss Robert Rodriguez’s Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Film-Maker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player, on FiveBooks as one of the top five on his subject – Film Directing, saying that:



“…I remember growing up and really wanting to be a film-maker but it seemed like an impossible dream. When this book came out it was so inspiring because Rodriguez said, just grab hold of a camera and go off and shoot and practise, and that is how you learn by making your mistakes in private.…”.



The full interview is available here: http://thebrowser.com/books/interviews/mat-whitecross