Robert Rodriguez

Film Industry "rebel"; author Rebel Without A Crew ISBN:0452271878

includes his "Ten-Minute FilmSchool"

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UOa7tkByrw
• http://www.macalester.edu/~fines/filmschl/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rodriguez

http://www.troublemakerpublishing.com/

http://www.godamongdirectors.com/rodriguez/index.shtml

Spent $7k ($3k of which he earned via month-long in-clinic medical trial, during which he wrote the screenplay) to make El Mariachi, resulting in a multi-film Hollywood deal.

• I haven't seen the El Mariachi, but I started watching the AntonioBanderas sequel Desperado and clicked it off after 20minutes, it was so bad. (I get really irritated by the campy-violence movies.)
• cf Without Their Permission