Books by Eminent Directors/Actors

1.
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist
I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist 4.20 avg rating β€” 1,053 ratings
2.
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey
Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey 3.98 avg rating β€” 153 ratings
3.
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives 4.02 avg rating β€” 2,940 ratings
4.
Wall and Piece
Wall and Piece
by: Banksy
3.85 avg rating β€” 232,714 ratings
5.
Confessions of an Actor
Confessions of an Actor 3.67 avg rating β€” 381 ratings
6.
Gates of Eden
Gates of Eden 3.56 avg rating β€” 1,488 ratings
7.
The Great Movies
The Great Movies 4.26 avg rating β€” 2,572 ratings
8.
By Myself
By Myself really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4,870 ratings
9.
The Beatles Anthology
The Beatles Anthology 4.38 avg rating β€” 17,684 ratings
10.
Acting Shakespeare (Applause Books)
Acting Shakespeare (Applause Books) 3.85 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
11.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Hitchcock/Truffaut 4.48 avg rating β€” 9,065 ratings
12.
Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun 4.21 avg rating β€” 47,420 ratings
13.
City of Thieves
City of Thieves 4.30 avg rating β€” 162,004 ratings
14.
A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered (Painted Turtle Book)
A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered (Painted Turtle Book) 4.33 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
15.
Pink
Pink 2.93 avg rating β€” 377 ratings
15.
Scorsese on Scorsese
Scorsese on Scorsese 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,312 ratings
15.
Roman by PolaΕ„ski
Roman by PolaΕ„ski 4.12 avg rating β€” 801 ratings
18.
The Hell of It All
The Hell of It All 4.02 avg rating β€” 2,729 ratings
18.
Conversations with Scorsese
Conversations with Scorsese 4.16 avg rating β€” 601 ratings
18.
Turnaround: A Memoir
Turnaround: A Memoir 4.45 avg rating β€” 219 ratings
21.
Palo Alto: Stories
Palo Alto: Stories 2.98 avg rating β€” 12,299 ratings
21.
Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader
Racing in the Street: The Bruce Springsteen Reader 4.13 avg rating β€” 126 ratings
21.
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Songs My Mother Taught Me 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,247 ratings
24.
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book: 10 3/4 Anniversary Edition
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book: 10 3/4 Anniversary Edition 4.03 avg rating β€” 17,303 ratings
24.
Finding Me
Finding Me 4.54 avg rating β€” 165,807 ratings
26.
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic 3.61 avg rating β€” 13,269 ratings
26.
The Empty Space
The Empty Space 4.19 avg rating β€” 4,774 ratings
26.
Franco Zeffirelli: The Autobiography
Franco Zeffirelli: The Autobiography 3.95 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
29.
The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare
The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare 4.15 avg rating β€” 175 ratings
29.
Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
Chasing The Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game 4.10 avg rating β€” 2,024 ratings
31.
Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: My Life
Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends: My Life 3.70 avg rating β€” 597 ratings
32.
You'll Like This Film Because You're in It: The Be Kind Rewind Protocol
You'll Like This Film Because You're in It: The Be Kind Rewind Protocol 3.87 avg rating β€” 61 ratings
32.
An Open Book
An Open Book 4.09 avg rating β€” 286 ratings
32.
Just as I Am
Just as I Am 4.51 avg rating β€” 11,197 ratings
35.
The Incal
The Incal 4.11 avg rating β€” 12,253 ratings
35.
John Huston: Interviews
John Huston: Interviews 3.68 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
35.
The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir
The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir 4.17 avg rating β€” 1,063 ratings
38.
Psicomagia
Psicomagia 4.02 avg rating β€” 3,133 ratings
38.
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2: Selected Writings and Interviews 3.90 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
38.
Apropos of Nothing: Autobiography
Apropos of Nothing: Autobiography 4.02 avg rating β€” 11,338 ratings
41.
Without Feathers
Without Feathers 3.90 avg rating β€” 10,469 ratings
41.
The Films in My Life
The Films in My Life 4.09 avg rating β€” 716 ratings
41.
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman 3.58 avg rating β€” 15,668 ratings
44.
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love
Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love 3.91 avg rating β€” 4,498 ratings
45.
Eyes Wide Shut & Dream Story
Eyes Wide Shut & Dream Story 3.58 avg rating β€” 758 ratings
45.
Comock: The True Story of an Eskimo Hunter
Comock: The True Story of an Eskimo Hunter 4.67 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
45.
The Elephant to Hollywood
The Elephant to Hollywood 3.84 avg rating β€” 3,575 ratings
48.
Nanook of the North
Nanook of the North 3.73 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
48.
Cloris
Cloris 3.63 avg rating β€” 600 ratings
50.
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories 4.12 avg rating β€” 42,373 ratings
50.
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,000 ratings
50.
By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There: A Memoir
By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There: A Memoir 3.50 avg rating β€” 329 ratings
53.
Burton on Burton
Burton on Burton 4.09 avg rating β€” 2,580 ratings
53.
A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald 3.64 avg rating β€” 1,668 ratings
53.
Easy Street: The Hard Way
Easy Street: The Hard Way 4.12 avg rating β€” 1,506 ratings
56.
Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir
Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir 3.94 avg rating β€” 840 ratings
56.
The Ashtray
The Ashtray 3.62 avg rating β€” 116 ratings
56.
Walking with Ghosts: A Memoir
Walking with Ghosts: A Memoir 4.11 avg rating β€” 3,777 ratings
59.
Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974
Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 11/23 to 12/14, 1974 3.79 avg rating β€” 3,607 ratings
59.
And Furthermore
And Furthermore 3.55 avg rating β€” 2,711 ratings
61.
Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors
Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors 4.34 avg rating β€” 511 ratings
61.
Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art 3.90 avg rating β€” 7,254 ratings
63.
Gilliam on Gilliam
Gilliam on Gilliam 4.07 avg rating β€” 311 ratings
63.
My Extraordinary Ordinary Life
My Extraordinary Ordinary Life 3.98 avg rating β€” 1,394 ratings
65.
Sculpting in Time
Sculpting in Time 4.50 avg rating β€” 6,302 ratings
65.
The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor
The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor 3.46 avg rating β€” 908 ratings
65.
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir 3.88 avg rating β€” 9,614 ratings
68.
Something Like an Autobiography
Something Like an Autobiography 4.13 avg rating β€” 4,407 ratings
68.
American Prince: A Memoir
American Prince: A Memoir 3.67 avg rating β€” 1,322 ratings
70.
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity 3.76 avg rating β€” 18,578 ratings
70.
A Director Prepares
A Director Prepares 4.33 avg rating β€” 1,258 ratings
70.
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years 3.88 avg rating β€” 20,232 ratings
73.
The American Night: The Lost Writings, Vol. 2
The American Night: The Lost Writings, Vol. 2 3.97 avg rating β€” 3,401 ratings
73.
Spy of the First Person
Spy of the First Person 3.76 avg rating β€” 1,614 ratings
73.
Did I Ever Tell You This?
Did I Ever Tell You This?
by: Sam Neill
4.04 avg rating β€” 5,650 ratings
76.
The Lords and the New Creatures
The Lords and the New Creatures 3.90 avg rating β€” 4,262 ratings
76.
Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark 4.36 avg rating β€” 167 ratings
76.
Learning to Live Out Loud
Learning to Live Out Loud 3.78 avg rating β€” 144 ratings
79.
Wilderness
Wilderness 3.97 avg rating β€” 4,045 ratings
79.
Motel Chronicles
Motel Chronicles 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,650 ratings
79.
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir 4.04 avg rating β€” 8,562 ratings
82.
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" 3.29 avg rating β€” 134,384 ratings
82.
A Lotus Grows in the Mud
A Lotus Grows in the Mud 3.90 avg rating β€” 5,481 ratings
84.
A Pocketful of Happiness
A Pocketful of Happiness 4.35 avg rating β€” 4,717 ratings
85.
Making Movies
Making Movies 4.29 avg rating β€” 9,516 ratings
85.
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman 3.74 avg rating β€” 84,666 ratings
85.
Making It So
Making It So 4.30 avg rating β€” 18,521 ratings
88.
Modern Romance
Modern Romance 3.80 avg rating β€” 189,345 ratings
88.
The Most of Nora Ephron
The Most of Nora Ephron 4.24 avg rating β€” 2,674 ratings
88.
My Name Is Barbra
My Name Is Barbra 4.18 avg rating β€” 19,999 ratings
91.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Perks of Being a Wallflower 4.24 avg rating β€” 1,948,194 ratings
91.
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections 3.80 avg rating β€” 35,591 ratings
91.
Thicker than Water: A Memoir
Thicker than Water: A Memoir 3.87 avg rating β€” 19,651 ratings
94.
The Beach
The Beach 3.98 avg rating β€” 94,564 ratings
94.
Buster Keaton: Interviews
Buster Keaton: Interviews 4.16 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
94.
In Pieces
In Pieces 3.94 avg rating β€” 40,892 ratings
97.
My Wonderful World of Slapstick
My Wonderful World of Slapstick 4.30 avg rating β€” 731 ratings
97.
My Life So Far
My Life So Far 4.04 avg rating β€” 6,898 ratings
99.
Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences
Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences 4.05 avg rating β€” 1,869 ratings
99.
A Life On Film
A Life On Film 4.26 avg rating β€” 77 ratings
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