What to Read After Directing Actors
Readers who loved Directing Actors by Judith Weston keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Directing Actors is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Directing Actors
In the blink of an eye
On directing film
Making movies
Rebel Without a Crew
The five C's of cinematography
The screenwriter's bible
Moviemakers' master class
Directing
The DV rebel's guide
The Conversations
How to Write a Movie in 21 Days
The film director's intuition
Notes on Directing
The filmmaker's handbook
Kazan on directing
The art of adaptation
Story
The writer's journey
Notes on the Cinematographer (Sun and Moon Classics)
Screenplay
Making a good script great
Save the cat!
Three Uses of the Knife
Sound Design