Directing

by Tay Garnett

An essential text on filmmaking that every student, scholar, and teacher of films should own. In it, some of the motion picture industry's most important directors including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Howard Hawks, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, Blake Edwards, Francois Truffaut, and René Clair answer questions on the decisions that all directors must make before filming a movie, questions that help the reader understand the concept of filmmaking. They cover all aspects of filmmaking including script choices, planning, casting, actor choices, editing, rehearsing, and music scoring. Garnett also elicited vital information on the directors' source of inspiration, how they started their career, their philosophy of filmmaking, and their objectives for making their films.

336 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1996

Reviews

[Laurel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although each of these interviews ends up bringing it's own wisdom, the format of the book becomes a little redundant. Each director answers the exact same questions, and in many cases, the answers do not vary much, and you end up reading more of a census. Some directors hardly give much of a response at all. I think this volume would have benefited more from a series of questions catered to each director to bring out their individual skill and advice from their own experience.

Fellini, Scorsese, Spielberg and Truffaut have some of the best interviews in the book.