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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?

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Results of 428 votes:

  1. 1.

    Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut in Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)

     
    "Hitchcock/Truffaut" by François Truffaut (interviews with Alfred Hitchcock)
  2. 2.

    Andrei Tarkovsky

     
    "Sculpting in Time" by Andrey Tarkovsky
  3. 3.

    Sergei Eisenstein in Alexander Nevsky (1938)

     
    "The Film Sense" by Sergey Eisenstein (suggested by yrnej)

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