Filmmaking Tips From Legendary Film Directors

An utterly brilliant series of articles by Film School Rejects’ Scott Beggs called 6 Filmmaking Tips From… It’s powerful knowledge—straight from the source.

• Martin Scorsese
• Alfred Hitchcock
• David Fincher
• Stanley Kubrick
• Billy Wilder
• Steven Spielberg
• The Coen Brothers
• Wes Anderson
• Ridley Scott
• David Cronenberg
• Pixar
• Nora Ephron
• Aaron Sorkin
• Michael Haneke
• Christopher Nolan
• Jon Jost
• John Ford
• Charlie Kaufman
• Sylvester Stallone
• Tony Scott
• Frank Darabont
• Monty Python
• Werner Herzog
• Paul Thomas Anderson

• Joss Whedon
• Rian Johnson
• Wes Craven
• John Carpenter
• Dario Argento
• The Wachowskis
• Steven Soderbergh
• George Lucas
• Peter Jackson
• Kathryn Bigelow
• Quentin Tarantino
• Sundance Directors
• John Cassavetes

• Harold Lloyd
• John McTiernan
• Oscar Winning Directors
• Ang Lee
• Danny Boyle
• Harmony Korine
• Dennis Hopper
• Sam Raimi
• Shane Black
• Richard Linklater
• Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Guillermo del Toro
• Sam Peckinpah
• Akira Kurosawa

• Edgar Wright
• Wong Kar-Wai
• Robert Altman
• James Wan
• Errol Morris
• Ron Howard
• Yasujirō Ozu
• Kimberly Peirce
• Steve McQueen
• Andy Warhol
• Roger Deakins
• David O. Russell
• James Gray
• Terry Gilliam

• Andy Serkis
• Rick Baker
• Alain Resnais
• William Friedkin
• Saul Zaentz
• Woody Allen’s Manhattan
• Abbas Kiarostami
• Darren Aronofsky
• Lars von Trier
• Hayao Miyazaki
• Federico Fellini
• Sarah Polley
• Tommy Wiseau
• Brian Koppelman
• Spike Lee
• Xavier Dolan
• Mike Nichols
• Jean-Luc Godard
• Michael Mann