Interviews between French New Wave director Truffaut and Hitchcock. Moves film-by-film through Hitchcock's work to reveal his mastery of suspense, visual storytelling, and the art of filmmaking.

Know what kind of business you are in - Hollywood is in the emotion-delivery business, selling emotional experiences packaged in movies and TV shows. This book is about how to write for emotional impact, and less about formulaic guideposts.

Unfortunate title, but has some excellent advice.

A standard all writers have to be familiar with.

Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course. He writes an original script, step by step, that appears in the book.