Written in a question-and-answer format, this remarkable interview with the legendary Hollywood writer-director shares his thoughts on screenwriting, cinematography, the studio system, the Golden Age of film, and the many stars with whom he worked. 35,000 first printing. Tour.
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Cameron Crowe was an associate editor and frequent contributor to <i>Rolling Stone</i>. In 1979, he wrote the book <b>Fast Times at Ridgemont High</b> and later adapted it as a screenplay. He wrote and directed <i>Say Anything, Singles</i>, and the Academy Award-winning <i>Jerry Maguire</i>. He lives in Los Angeles and Seattle.
versations with Wilder</b>, Hollywood's legendary and famously elusive director Billy Wilder agrees for the first time to talk extensively about his life and work.<br><br>Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs, and never-before-seen pictures from Wilder's own collection -- the ninety-three-year-old icon talks to Cameron Crowe, one of today's best-known writer-directors, about thirty years at the very heart of Hollywood, and about screenwriting and camera work, set design and stars, his peers and their movies, the studio system and films today. In his distinct voice we hear Wilder's inside view on his collaborations with such stars as Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, and Greta Garbo (he was a writer at MGM during the making of <i>Ninotchka</i>. Here are Wilder's sharp and funny behind-the-scenes stories about the making of <i>A Foreign
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