Robert Rodriguez

And there were always funny as, uh, I stumbled upon Spy Kids that way. Like I wanted to make these action movies in my backyard. But when you're a teenager, you don't know anybody who can come be your action star. And if you just bring your high school buddies, well, they just look like high school kids. So I use my little brothers and sisters because I'm one of 10. They're oldest.

And there were always funny as, uh, I stumbled upon Spy Kids that way. Like I wanted to make these action movies in my backyard. But when you're a teenager, you don't know anybody who can come be your action star. And if you just bring your high school buddies, well, they just look like high school kids. So I use my little brothers and sisters because I'm one of 10. They're oldest.

And there were always funny as, uh, I stumbled upon Spy Kids that way. Like I wanted to make these action movies in my backyard. But when you're a teenager, you don't know anybody who can come be your action star. And if you just bring your high school buddies, well, they just look like high school kids. So I use my little brothers and sisters because I'm one of 10. They're oldest.

They're just sitting around watching cartoons anyway. And I made them the action stars just to like learn. And I found those things would be a winning formula. They'd win every festival I'd send them to. So Bedhead is, was my first time using a film camera. It was a wind up film camera I got in film school.

They're just sitting around watching cartoons anyway. And I made them the action stars just to like learn. And I found those things would be a winning formula. They'd win every festival I'd send them to. So Bedhead is, was my first time using a film camera. It was a wind up film camera I got in film school.

They're just sitting around watching cartoons anyway. And I made them the action stars just to like learn. And I found those things would be a winning formula. They'd win every festival I'd send them to. So Bedhead is, was my first time using a film camera. It was a wind up film camera I got in film school.

I went to film school for one semester and realized I already knew more than the film students because they taught you a whole other outdated way of doing it. So I thought, I'm just going to use that film camera to make a low budget, movie, a definitive film version that I can send to all film festivals of these action kids, which is a precursor to Spy Kids. Bedhead's a precursor to Spy Kids.

I went to film school for one semester and realized I already knew more than the film students because they taught you a whole other outdated way of doing it. So I thought, I'm just going to use that film camera to make a low budget, movie, a definitive film version that I can send to all film festivals of these action kids, which is a precursor to Spy Kids. Bedhead's a precursor to Spy Kids.

I went to film school for one semester and realized I already knew more than the film students because they taught you a whole other outdated way of doing it. So I thought, I'm just going to use that film camera to make a low budget, movie, a definitive film version that I can send to all film festivals of these action kids, which is a precursor to Spy Kids. Bedhead's a precursor to Spy Kids.

It opened up your brain, especially because those video festivals, I would win like a trip to New York and and a director's chair with a video of shorts that I would put in festivals. But I knew the film festival, if I could get into film festivals, I could send that all over the world. So I made that little short film, sent it, and it was winning all the festivals.

It opened up your brain, especially because those video festivals, I would win like a trip to New York and and a director's chair with a video of shorts that I would put in festivals. But I knew the film festival, if I could get into film festivals, I could send that all over the world. So I made that little short film, sent it, and it was winning all the festivals.

It opened up your brain, especially because those video festivals, I would win like a trip to New York and and a director's chair with a video of shorts that I would put in festivals. But I knew the film festival, if I could get into film festivals, I could send that all over the world. So I made that little short film, sent it, and it was winning all the festivals.

And I thought, wow, I made that with a wind-up camera, film camera, filming just one take each shot, just no slates, because I'm the editor. And that cost 800 bucks. And it was eight minutes. I bet I can make an 80 minute movie for $8,000 if I'd use the same method. So that movie I did six months later, I was making mariachi because it opened up my mind to that. I could try it in a feature.

And I thought, wow, I made that with a wind-up camera, film camera, filming just one take each shot, just no slates, because I'm the editor. And that cost 800 bucks. And it was eight minutes. I bet I can make an 80 minute movie for $8,000 if I'd use the same method. So that movie I did six months later, I was making mariachi because it opened up my mind to that. I could try it in a feature.

And I thought, wow, I made that with a wind-up camera, film camera, filming just one take each shot, just no slates, because I'm the editor. And that cost 800 bucks. And it was eight minutes. I bet I can make an 80 minute movie for $8,000 if I'd use the same method. So that movie I did six months later, I was making mariachi because it opened up my mind to that. I could try it in a feature.

Let me tell you the trick to that, and mariachi is the same way. And this really helped people. Like even Kevin Smith from Clerks said, wow, Robert said, when Mariachi was a success, I talked about how I did it. And I said, I looked at everything I had. What do I have? We have a pit bull. We have a turtle. We've got a bus that Carlos's cousin owns.

Let me tell you the trick to that, and mariachi is the same way. And this really helped people. Like even Kevin Smith from Clerks said, wow, Robert said, when Mariachi was a success, I talked about how I did it. And I said, I looked at everything I had. What do I have? We have a pit bull. We have a turtle. We've got a bus that Carlos's cousin owns.

Let me tell you the trick to that, and mariachi is the same way. And this really helped people. Like even Kevin Smith from Clerks said, wow, Robert said, when Mariachi was a success, I talked about how I did it. And I said, I looked at everything I had. What do I have? We have a pit bull. We have a turtle. We've got a bus that Carlos's cousin owns.

His cousin, his brother-in-law has a bar and he owns a ranch. So the bad guy lives at the ranch, the fight scene's gonna be in the bar, he's gonna hit a bus at one point, the girl's gonna have a dog, and a turtle's gonna cross the road. It gives you all this production value, so you write backwards. So for Bedhead, I even did that with a camera.

His cousin, his brother-in-law has a bar and he owns a ranch. So the bad guy lives at the ranch, the fight scene's gonna be in the bar, he's gonna hit a bus at one point, the girl's gonna have a dog, and a turtle's gonna cross the road. It gives you all this production value, so you write backwards. So for Bedhead, I even did that with a camera.