Actors Turned Directors: On Eliciting the Best Performance from an Actor and Other Secrets of Successful Directing

Ten highly popular and acclaimed film directors whose careers began in front of the cameras candidly offer their insights into the all-important and underexplored subject of directing actors. Each actor-turned-director discusses filmmaking and acting as observed from and practiced on both sides of the camera and offers invaluable guidelines and tips on casting, rehearsing, communicating and working with actors, and the whole of the moviemaking process.