The legendary director talks about his wide-ranging reading taste, and some of the books that informed his latest film, which stars Adam Driver as a visionary polymath.
The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin Over the last fifteen years or so, I’ve gotten in the habit of trying to choose something to read that’s totally not like what I’m working on, to sort of have a rest. But what happens when you try to do this is that it merely bends what you’re working on to be more like what you’re reading. This is a Chinese book, which is also sometimes called “The Story of the Stone.
Directors on Directing Edited by Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy Of course, everything great on the subject of narrative, it all ultimately comes from the Greeks. And then you bounce it off Jean-Luc Godard, who said that every movie must have a beginning, middle, and end, but not necessarily in that order. In our country, the great transition came with a man named George Pierce Baker, who set up what became the Yale School of Drama.
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