
What choices--creative, practical, and technical--make a movie what it is? Here a gifted writer and filmmaker takes us behind the camera and provides a full description of the movie-making process.When John Sayles turned from writing fiction to making movies, he did so with little...


A unique book for anyone who has ever wondered how movies really get made, by America's most brilliant independent filmmaker. Sayles gives an illuminating book about the choices that lie at the heart of every movie.