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He was born in San Antonio, Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin.
Rodriguez debuted with the short film Bedhead and then went on to shoot the action flick El Mariachi in Spanish, inspired by John Woo films. El Mariachi, which was shot for around $7,000 with money partially raised by volunteering in medical research studies, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992, and the film, originally intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video market, was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Rodriguez described his experiences making the film in his book Rebel Without a Crew, which inspired legions of hopeful filmmakers, arguably only a fraction of whom were as talented as Rodriguez, to pick up cameras and make no-budget movies.
His next film was Desperado, a sequel to El Mariachi starring Antonio Banderas. The film introduced Salma Hayek to American audiences. He collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on the vampire thriller From Dusk Till Dawn (which would see two sequelA sequel is a work of literature or film that is written after a completed work, and is set in the same "universe" but at a later time. It usually continues elements of the first story, often with the same characters, although this is not always the cases, which he co-produced) and with Kevin WilliamsonKevin Meade Williamson (b. March 14, 1965) is an American screenwriter best known for his work on the Scream trilogy and the television series Dawson's Creek''. Early Years Born in New Bern, North Carolina, he is the younger son of Ottis Wade and Lillie F on the teen horror sci-fi flick The FacultyThe Faculty is a science fiction thriller movie about six teenagers who suspect that their school has been taken over by aliens. It is a take-off of the mid-1970s movie Invasion Of The Body Snatchers''. Made in 1998, this is directed by Robert Rodriguez a.
In 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap, Rodriguez enjoyed his first $100-million Hollywood hit with Spy KidsSpy Kids is a name of a movie trilogy released from 2001 to 2003. The Spy Kids movies are about the children of a married spy couple who become involved in their parents' espionage. The rest of their family are also spies as well, including their uncle an, which went on to become a trilogy. A third "mariachi" film also appeared in late 2003, Once Upon a Time in MexicoOnce Upon a Time in Mexico ( 2003) is an action film by Robert Rodriguez, a loose sequel to Desperado''. Antonio Banderas reprises his role as El Mariachi. Also stars Johnny Depp, Salma Hayek, Willem Dafoe and Enrique Iglesias. This picture is part of the. He operates a production company called Troublemaker Studios , formerly Los Hooligans Productions , after Los Hooligans, a comic strip he wrote and drew at UT.