Book · recommended on 4 episodes
Rebel Without a Crew
Robert Rodriguez ISBN 9780452271876
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Robert Rodriguez ISBN 9780452271876
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This book by Robert Rodriguez has come up 4 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Robert Rodriguez, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2025-01-29 and the most recent from 2025-04-16. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“a lot of people read my book, Rebels Had a Crew and told me, Oh, it made me be a filmmaker.”— Robert Rodriguez
The guest here is Robert Rodriguez: Legendary independent filmmaker behind El Mariachi, Desperado, Sin City, Spy Kids, Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn, and Alita: Battle Angel. He runs his own studio in Austin, Texas and famously serves as director, writer, cinematographer, editor, composer, and effects supervisor on his films. Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez on making El Mariachi for $7,000, doing every job himself, creative philosophy, and collaborating with Tarantino and Cameron.
“I highly recommend people because you comment, you add additional commas to it. It's great.”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Robert Rodriguez: Legendary independent filmmaker behind El Mariachi, Desperado, Sin City, Spy Kids, Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn, and Alita: Battle Angel. He runs his own studio in Austin, Texas and famously serves as director, writer, cinematographer, editor, composer, and effects supervisor on his films. Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez on making El Mariachi for $7,000, doing every job himself, creative philosophy, and collaborating with Tarantino and Cameron.
“just like a month ago, we just put out an audio book for the first time for Rebel Without a Crew. The book that kind of started it all”— Robert Rodriguez
The guest here is Robert Rodriguez: Filmmaker behind El Mariachi, Spy Kids, Sin City, Desperado, and We Can Be Heroes; author of Rebel Without a Crew; known for guerrilla, resource-leveraging, fear-forward creativity. Robert Rodriguez returns to share fear-forward filmmaking, identity labels, working with his kids, and why journaling means reliving your life.
“there's an amazing story people can check it out in a book called a rebel without a crew by by Robert Rodriguez”— Tim Ferriss
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