Two classic filmmaking books in one box set:
Fast, Cheap and Under Control: Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low-Budget Movies of All Time
Learn the tricks and pitfalls of low-budget filmmaking from 33 successful independent films and the filmmakers who created them. Includes never before published interviews with low-budget mavericks such as Steven Soderbergh, Roger Corman, Jon Favreau, Henry Jaglom, and many more.
Fast, Cheap and Written That Way: Top Screenwriters on Writing for Low-Budget Movies
Hollywood's top screenwriters look back at their early low-budget efforts and provide valuable tips, tricks, and advice on how to create a solid screenplay for a low-budget movie.
Includes in-depth interviews with: Tom DiCillo ( Living in Oblivion ), Whit Stillman ( Metropolitan ), Richard Glatzer ( Grief ), Henry Jaglom ( Venice/Venice ), Dan Futterman ( Capote ), John McNaughton ( Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer ), Coleman Hough ( Bubble ), Rebecca Miller ( Personal Velocity ), Stuart Gordon ( Re-Animato r), Joan Micklin Silver ( Hester Street ), Ali Selim ( Sweet Land ), Stephen Belber ( Tape ), Eric Bogosian ( subUrbia ), George Romero ( Martin ), Bob Clark ( Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things ), Roger Nygard ( Suckers ), Alex Cox ( Repo Man ), Amy Holden Jones ( Love Letters ), Kenneth Lonergan ( You Can Count on Me ), Dylan Kidd ( Roger Dodger ), L. M. Kit Carson ( Paris, Texas ), Kasi Lemmons ( Eve's Bayou ), and Miranda July ( Me and You and Everyone We Know ).