From Action! to Cut!: Conversations with Auteurs, Craftsmen, and Visionaries

The authors have gained access to the top living American directors through their involvement with the DGA. They are interviewing the authors DGA's private archives, but they've also been granted to use the dialogues for a book. The twenty interview-ees will include Robert Wise, who's brought us such films as The Sound of Music and Michael Apted, who directed the latest Bond film The World is not Enough. Also, such leading figures as Jonathan Demme, Milos Forman, Gus Van Sant, and Steven Soderbergh. The directors will reveal such fascinating subjects as how film directing has evolved over the last sixty years; what is the role of the film director with the auteur theory in eclipse and the power of movie stars in ascendance; and is technology changing the nature of directing? A revelatory inside look at the greatest minds in filmmaking, this is a must-have for all film enthusiasts.