Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

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intresting, August 12, 2008
By Alexandra Bunch (usa)
i have been in the motion picture world for a very long time, i also know alot about low budget filmmaking and i love the way how he got into the industry, i think he tells his story in a very intresting way but i do not like the fact how he makes it seems like film school is completly useless, i understand where he was coming from but do not diss film school as if you cannot learn anything from it, i myself did not attend film school but for 15 years of my life i read about cinema. i must have read so many books on film directing and it did help me out alot, i think he also forgot that he went to film school himself, he had to know the rules in order to break them properly. this book had me laughing alot, robert has a great sense of humor and his ten min film school can be very useful to alot of us independant filmmakers, he's right film school does show you how to work on a huge set that cost alot of money but thats because they hope one day you make it big, they show you how to work as a team with other crew members just like robert is doing now. i've seen him on several film sets and his crew consists of more then 75 people, way more then he worked with the first time, so when reading this book don't take things literally.



Teriffic!, June 15, 2008
By BeachTV (West Palm Beach, FL)
Loved this book. Funny and insightful look at breaking into Hollywood. Read it & watch El Mariachi.



Dust off that camcorder dude!, June 9, 2008
By W. van Praag (Tasmania, Australia)
Fun and easy reading book about a young man making a movie on the cheap just so he can get his first ten bad movies out of the way before making a good one. Fancy this first effort to hit it big in Hollywood! Inspiring stuff, and especially inspiring considering he never expected this el-cheapo B-rate Spanish language movie, made with volunteer actors in a border town, to amount to anything but a practice run for the Mexican video market if he was lucky. Get it, read it, write down that script you have in your head and go dust off the old camcorder and start shooting!

This book also has lots of cool hints as to how to make expensive looking scenes!



Cracks along at a pace., May 3, 2008
By W. B. Mcclure
Well written, full of fun and wit and most importantly a damn fine blueprint to gain inspiration from should you wish to go out and make your own movies. Best non-fictional book I've read on the making of films in a long while. Up there with Roger Corman's 'How I Made One Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime.'



Without a Crew?, February 26, 2008
By Westley Burke
This book is mostly a tale about making a particular film. It is entertaining but it lacked the nitty gritty details I was hoping for.