Robert Rodriguez

But I tried to figure this out when I was doing that other method, the wrong method, when I was cartooning, because it would be so hard to come up with a cartoon strip each day. But I needed the money. And I had a daily cartoon strip here at UT. We had the biggest comics page in the country. It was really everybody wanted to be the next Burt Bread that he'd come out of there. He did Bloom County.

He was a UT student. His college art was like national stuff. So we all wanted to be him. So I would go like, it's got to be an easier process than sitting here and working it out. I want to come home and develop a process where I sit on my couch and I just picture it first. I picture the comic. I picture the jokes. I picture the drawing. Then I just go draw it, right?

He was a UT student. His college art was like national stuff. So we all wanted to be him. So I would go like, it's got to be an easier process than sitting here and working it out. I want to come home and develop a process where I sit on my couch and I just picture it first. I picture the comic. I picture the jokes. I picture the drawing. Then I just go draw it, right?

He was a UT student. His college art was like national stuff. So we all wanted to be him. So I would go like, it's got to be an easier process than sitting here and working it out. I want to come home and develop a process where I sit on my couch and I just picture it first. I picture the comic. I picture the jokes. I picture the drawing. Then I just go draw it, right?

I'd be there two hours, three hours. My deadline's coming up. Shit, it's not working. So I have to go, fuck, start drawing again. Then be like, okay, this kind of goes with that one. Oh, here it is. And I realized something really profound back at 19. And it's really carried into mariachi, which is when you pick up the pen or the keyboard or the camera and you start drawing,

I'd be there two hours, three hours. My deadline's coming up. Shit, it's not working. So I have to go, fuck, start drawing again. Then be like, okay, this kind of goes with that one. Oh, here it is. And I realized something really profound back at 19. And it's really carried into mariachi, which is when you pick up the pen or the keyboard or the camera and you start drawing,

I'd be there two hours, three hours. My deadline's coming up. Shit, it's not working. So I have to go, fuck, start drawing again. Then be like, okay, this kind of goes with that one. Oh, here it is. And I realized something really profound back at 19. And it's really carried into mariachi, which is when you pick up the pen or the keyboard or the camera and you start drawing,

It starts doing itself. You realize it's not you. It's coming through you because there's a creative spirit assigned to us that needs hands. And it's not going to reward you if you're doing that because it can do that. But as soon as you pick it up, it takes over. So I realized, oh, I just have to be a conduit or a pipe. And if I just start, I'm going to be like, whoa.

It starts doing itself. You realize it's not you. It's coming through you because there's a creative spirit assigned to us that needs hands. And it's not going to reward you if you're doing that because it can do that. But as soon as you pick it up, it takes over. So I realized, oh, I just have to be a conduit or a pipe. And if I just start, I'm going to be like, whoa.

It starts doing itself. You realize it's not you. It's coming through you because there's a creative spirit assigned to us that needs hands. And it's not going to reward you if you're doing that because it can do that. But as soon as you pick it up, it takes over. So I realized, oh, I just have to be a conduit or a pipe. And if I just start, I'm going to be like, whoa.

And you've got to keep your ego out of it because then you go, wow, how did I do that? I wonder if I could do it again. You just shut it. You just shut it right back up because you think it's you and it's not you. And I know this works because I taught it to my kids when they were younger. I thought I got to teach it to my kids.

And you've got to keep your ego out of it because then you go, wow, how did I do that? I wonder if I could do it again. You just shut it. You just shut it right back up because you think it's you and it's not you. And I know this works because I taught it to my kids when they were younger. I thought I got to teach it to my kids.

And you've got to keep your ego out of it because then you go, wow, how did I do that? I wonder if I could do it again. You just shut it. You just shut it right back up because you think it's you and it's not you. And I know this works because I taught it to my kids when they were younger. I thought I got to teach it to my kids.

And since they hadn't learned any bad habits, they went, oh, so we didn't have to do anything. We just have to start writing. It's going to come out. Go. Yeah. And they win. They wrote some amazing stuff. And I was like, they don't have to be reversed, you know, reversed. But that that was a very powerful lesson.

And since they hadn't learned any bad habits, they went, oh, so we didn't have to do anything. We just have to start writing. It's going to come out. Go. Yeah. And they win. They wrote some amazing stuff. And I was like, they don't have to be reversed, you know, reversed. But that that was a very powerful lesson.

And since they hadn't learned any bad habits, they went, oh, so we didn't have to do anything. We just have to start writing. It's going to come out. Go. Yeah. And they win. They wrote some amazing stuff. And I was like, they don't have to be reversed, you know, reversed. But that that was a very powerful lesson.

thing and i saw when i did another seven thousand dollar movie recently i had a tv series based on rebel without a crew where i i got independent filmmakers so it only made short films and i gave him two weeks so you gotta do like mariachi you can bring one person to be either a cameraman or your sound guy but you gotta do the whole movie yourself write it direct it edit it and be shot in two weeks that's how long it took me to shoot mariachi

thing and i saw when i did another seven thousand dollar movie recently i had a tv series based on rebel without a crew where i i got independent filmmakers so it only made short films and i gave him two weeks so you gotta do like mariachi you can bring one person to be either a cameraman or your sound guy but you gotta do the whole movie yourself write it direct it edit it and be shot in two weeks that's how long it took me to shoot mariachi

thing and i saw when i did another seven thousand dollar movie recently i had a tv series based on rebel without a crew where i i got independent filmmakers so it only made short films and i gave him two weeks so you gotta do like mariachi you can bring one person to be either a cameraman or your sound guy but you gotta do the whole movie yourself write it direct it edit it and be shot in two weeks that's how long it took me to shoot mariachi

And they're all, oh, we don't know how we're going to do it. By the week they started shooting, they were already talking about their next three films. Like they changed their idea of what was impossible. It just dropped out. So I was really curious to do mine. I was doing one based on my medical experiments I did to pay for mariachi, which is another story.