samwinchester:It really spoke to me personally. I have five kids, and even though they grew up bil
samwinchester: It really spoke to me personally. I have five kids, and even though they grew up bilingual, they live and converse in English like most second and third generation Hispanics. I realized there wasn’t anything on television that represented who they were in this country. And I thought it was important — there was not a network like that, and we were growing as a population.[…..]That’s why “From Dusk Till Dawn” is our first show — it ends up in Mexico at one point, and half the cast being Hispanic, naturally, because of the story. But people get drawn in because it’s like a “Walking Dead” show — it’s cool, it’s got a lot of action, a lot of fun, there’s Quentin Tarantino dialogue and characters. That’s what I wanted to do, is make something that’s mainstream, reaching a total audience and giving people who feel like they haven’t been represented in the media, opening up the doors of the network so we can find new voices, find new filmmakers. We have a lot of feature directors, a lot of Hispanic directors, writers, but also they’re just top talent in Hollywood — I wrangled the best of the best together. Some of our directors are guys I’m giving a chance to that are really fantastic and doing a great job and that will be our future filmmakers. - [x] Robert Rodriguez -- source link