Poll: Filmmaking Books by Directors
This is a list of books, written by acclaimed directors, which primarily deal with the issue of how to make a movie. Which of these books would you most want to read before starting a career as a director? Discuss here
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Frank Capra, Photo By Roy Vaughan, circa 1926, **I.V.
"The Name Above the Title" by Frank Capra -
Sergei Eisenstein in Alexander Nevsky (1938)
"The Film Sense" by Sergey Eisenstein (suggested by yrnej) -
Elia Kazan
"Kazan on Directing" by Elia Kazan -
Alexander Mackendrick
"On Film-Making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director" by Alexander Mackendrick -
Akira Kurosawa
"Something Like An Autobiography" by Akira Kurosawa (suggested by yrnej) -
Satyajit Ray
"Speaking of Films" by Satyajit Ray -
Sidney Lumet in Family Business (1989)
"Making Movies" by Sidney Lumet -
Claude Chabrol in Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
"How to Make a Movie" by Claude Chabrol -
Andrei Tarkovsky
"Sculpting in Time" by Andrey Tarkovsky -
Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut in Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
"Hitchcock/Truffaut" by François Truffaut (interviews with Alfred Hitchcock) -
Lloyd Kaufman in Polypore (2013)
"Make Your Own Damn Movie!" by Lloyd Kaufman (suggested by yrnej) -
Peter Bogdanovich in She's Funny That Way (2014)
"Who the Devil Made It" by Peter Bogdanovich (interviews with 16 directors) -
David Mamet at an event for State and Main (2000)
"On Directing Film" by David Mamet -
Spike Lee in If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010)
"Spike Lee's Gotta Have It" by Spike Lee -
Cameron Crowe
"Conversations with Wilder" by Cameron Crowe (interviews with Billy Wilder) -
Richard Lester
"Getting Away With It" by Steven Soderbergh (interviews with Richard Lester) -
Robert Rodriguez at an event for Planet Terror (2007)
"Rebel Without a Crew" by Robert Rodriguez -
Milos Forman
"Turnaround. A Memoir" by Miloš Forman (suggested by milenko cvorkov)