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

Jon Stevens, 300 pages, 6x9, illus., 1-879505-34-7, $19.95 paper
“In Actors Turned Directors, the reader will not only learn of the challenges faced in moving behind the movie camera, but also will learn much about the whole process of making motion pictures. A most interesting read.”
— Robert Wise

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.

Jon Stevens is a writer/director whose most recent feature film is Irish Whiskey. He serves on the publications committee of the Directors Guild of America, with whose support this book was prepared.