Creativity is a recurring idea in the book. Rodriguez is an artist who can draw, paint, and make movies. He knows he is creative and receives a lot of compliments on his filmmaking style. His short film "Bedhead" receives several national awards and his movie receives public and media acclaim. As he explains it, his style is partly due to the fact that he developed pre-visualization skills because he had to use his family's two VCRs to edit his home movies. He had to learn how to shoot scenes fast to make the editing process as painless as possible.