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Rodriguez went to the College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also developed a love of cartooning. Not having grades high enough to be accepted into the school's film program, he created a daily comic strip entitled Los Hooligans.
Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. His family is of Mexican descent.
Rodriguez realized that he was not a great student at a San Antonio junior seminary boarding school. He told Rita Kempley of the Washington Post, "I accepted the fact that I would never be a rocket scientist.
Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. His family is of Mexican descent.
- January 1, 1
- 1.88 m
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Robert’s Interest In Film Began Early. Robert Rodriguez was born in 1968 in San Antonio, Texas, to his parents Rebecca a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez a cookware sales manager.He came from a large family with many sisters and brothers.
- His First Feature Film, El Mariachi, Had A Budget Of Just $7,000. In 1992, Rodriguez wrote the script for his first feature film, El Mariachi. To raise funds for the neo-noir action film, he took extreme measures and volunteered for medical research tests, participating in various medical experiments as a paid subject.
- Robert Is a Close Friend Of Quentin Tarantino. Rodriguez and Tarantino have been very close friends for some time. Both of them are self-taught directors who have collaborated on several projects together including Four Rooms, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Sin City, and Grindhouse.
- Robert Used To Videotape His High School’s Football Games. Rodriguez attended St. Anthony High School Seminary in San Antonio. He was commissioned to videotape the school’s football games but was fired soon after for shooting footage in a cinematic style.
Won Way Into Film School. Attending St. Anthony's High School in Austin, Rodriguez did well enough to get into the University of Texas but did not make the grades necessary to win admission to the university's film program. Nevertheless, Rodriguez flourished as a student at Texas.
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In 1991 as a student at The University of Texas at Austin, Robert Rodriguez wrote the script to his first feature film, El Mariachi, while sequestered at a drug research facility as a paid subject in a clinical experiment.
