Robert Rodriguez

This episode features the profile of Robert
Rodriguez from Tools of Titans, which is now available
as an audiobook. This chapter's narrators are Kaleo Griffith
(bio) and Ray Porter (profile). To check out the full
audiobook of Tools of Titans with 100+ chapters, visit
audible.com/ferriss.

Robert Rodriguez (@Rodriguez) is a director,
screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and musician. He
is also the founder and chairman of El Rey Network, a
genre-busting cable network. There, he hosts one of my favorite
interview-format shows, The Director’s Chair. While a student at
the University of Texas at Austin, Robert wrote the script for
his first feature film while he was a paid subject in a clinical
experiment at a drug research facility. That paycheck covered the
cost of shooting over two weeks. The film, El Mariachi, went on
to win the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and
became the lowest-budget movie ever released by a major studio.
He went on to write, produce, and direct many successful films,
including Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, the Spy Kids franchise,
Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Frank Miller’s Sin City, Machete, and
others. You might also enjoy my interview with Robert on The Tim
Ferriss Show podcast.  

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