In these vivid and revealing interviews, 20 directors talk in detail and withamazing candor about making their first films.

A sequel to the critically acclaimed My First Movie, Stephen Lowenstein once again talks to some of our most celebrated filmmakers about their debut films. Lowenstein interviews ten directors about their career-launching film and how they got the movie off the ground: how they raised the finance, found actors, searched for locations, worked with the crew and saw the project through to completion. Filmmakers interviewed include Richard Linklater on Slacker; Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu on Amores Perros; Terry Gilliam on Jabberwocky; and Sam Mendes on American...