Making Movies

Description

From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and a definitive guide to the art, craft, and business of the motion picture. Drawing on 40 years of experience on movies ranging from Long Day's Journey Into Night to The Verdict, Lumet explains the painstaking labor that results in two hours of screen magic. From the Trade Paperback edition.;The director: the best job in the world -- The script: are writers necessary? -- Style: the most misused word since love -- Actor: can an actor really be shy? -- The camera: your best friend -- Art direction and clothes: does Faye Dunaway really have the skirt taken in in sixteen different places? -- Shooting the movie: at last! -- Rushes: the agony and the ecstasy -- The cutting room: alone at last -- The sound of music: the sound of sound -- The mix: the only dull part of moviemaking -- The answer print: here comes the baby -- The studio: was it all for this?