Fast, Cheap & Under Control: Lessons Learned from the Greatest Low-Budget Movies of All Time

Dying to make a feature? Learn from the pros!

"We never put out an actual textbook for the Corman School of Filmmaking, but if we did, it would be Fast, Cheap and Under Control." — Roger Corman, Producer

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It’s like taking a Master Class in moviemaking...all in one book!

• Jonathan Demme: The value of cameos
• John Sayles: Writing to your resources
• Peter Bogdanovich: Long, continuous takes
• John Cassavetes: Re-Shoots
• Steven Soderbergh: Rehearsals
• George Romero: Casting
• Kevin Smith: Skipping film school
• Jon Favreau: Creating an emotional connection
• Richard Linklater: Poverty breeds creativity
• David Lynch: Kill your darlings
• Ron Howard: Pre-production planning
• John Carpenter: Going low-tech
• Robert Rodriguez: Sound thinking

And more!

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.

Learn the lessons from such classics as Clerks, Night of the Living Dead, Swingers, Open Water, El Mariachi, Slacker, sex, lies and videotape, The Blair Witch Project, Eraserhead, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Dark Star, Return of the Secaucus Seven, The Little Shop of Horrors, Caged Heat and Targets.

Are you dying to make a movie? This is the one book that can help you make it a reality.

Grab it now!

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