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Learn moreWhat do you do when actors won't do what you tell them to? Remembering his own awkwardness and terror as a beginning director working with actors who always had their own ideas, director John Badham has a bookload of knowledge to pass along in this inspired and insightful must-listen for cinema fans as well as actors and directors at all levels of their craft. You'll learn how to use proven techniques to get actors to give their best performances—including the ten best and ten worst things to say—and what you can do when an actor won't or can't do what the director wants. Also included are no-holds-barred out-of-school tales culled from celebrated top directors and actors, including Sydney Pollack, Michael Mann, John Frankenheimer, Mel Gibson, James Woods, Anne Bancroft, Jenna Elfman, and Roger Corman.
John Badham is the award-winning director of such classic films as Saturday Night Fever, Stakeout, and WarGames. Badham is a professor of Film and Media at Chapman University.
Craig Modderno is a journalist and filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed the original documentary The Graduate at 25. His 3,000+ bylines have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Playboy, TV Guide, USA Today, and Rolling Stone.
John Badham is the award-winning director of such classic films as Saturday Night Fever, Stakeout, and WarGames. Badham is a professor of Film and Media at Chapman University.
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