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The love-hate relationship between directors and actors is entertainingly dissected by veteran director John Badham and industry journalist Craig Modderno in this kiss-and-tell primer from the directing frontlines.

The Berkeley-based Liu, a graduate of the DGA Training Program, enjoys the problem solving that comes with being an AD.

Like his boss, Scorsese's 1st AD is an avowed cinephile, mentally storing the images he comes across at MOMA, Film Forum and Lincoln Center for visual references later.

As a longtime employee of the iconic syndicated game show, Corwin worked his way up from stage manager to associate director, finally replacing Dick Carson as director in 1999.

Preston Sturges takes a dip.

Fox Television president Dana Walden talks about an industry trying to keep up with technology.

Spanning the years 1941-1947, Volume 2 traces the larger-than-life director's career from Kane to his never finished documentary, It's All True, about life in Brazil.

The film critic for Newsday (Anderson) and executive VP of marketing and publicity Warner Independent (Kim) throw a lifeline to young filmmakers and explain the film sales process.

Here are a few things directors should not do anymore.

If knowledge is power, then every player in Hollywood looking to gain the upper hand in dealmaking ought to dip into this book. Not that the book’s contents – like the studio accounting practices it depicts – will be fully understandable to anyone who’s not a CPA.

From Summertime in Venice to Lawrence of Arabia in the desert, David Lean was one of cinema's great visual stylists. Here's a look at the great director at work.