Includes bibliographical references (p. 681-682) and index.

Harold Lloyd -- Raoul Walsh -- King Vidor -- Fritz Lang -- Frank Capra -- Howard Hawks -- James Wong Howe -- Mervyn Leroy -- Rouben Mamoulian -- George Folsey -- William Wyler -- George Stevens -- William Clothier -- Alfred Hitchcock -- George Cukor -- Billy Wilder -- John Huston -- Ray Bradbury -- Elia Kazan -- Fred Zinnemann -- David Lean -- Stanley Cortez -- Robert Wise -- Ernest Lehman -- Gene Kelly -- Richard Brooks -- Stanley Kramer -- Hal Wallis -- Jean Renoir -- Federico Fellini -- Ingmar Bergman -- Satyajit Ray.

ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER'S 100 GREATEST FILM BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The first book to bring together interviews of master moviemakers from the American Film Institute's renowned seminars, Conversations with the Great Moviemakers, offers an unmatched history of American cinema in the words of its greatest practitioners. Here are the incomparable directors Frank Capra, Elia Kazan, King Vidor, David Lean, Fritz Lang ("I learned only from bad films"), William Wyler, and George Stevens; renowned producers and cinematographers; celebrated screenwriters Ray Bradbury and Ernest Lehman; as well as the immortal Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini ("Making a movie is a mathematical operation. It's absolutely impossible to improvise"). Taken together, these conversations offer uniquely intimate access to the thinking, the wisdom, and the genius of cinema's most talented pioneers.