From tentpoles to cellphones, Warner Bros. Chairman and CEO Barry Meyer surveys the business.

Billy Wilder's The Apartment is a film that inspired Nancy Meyers. The director chats about what makes it so special for her.

Alfred Hitchcock always claimed that, for him, shooting was the least interesting part of filmmaking. But in a rare series of set shots, he appears totally engaged with cast and crew.

As a 2nd AD on ABC's Lost, Wainani - whose name means "beautiful water" in Hawaiian - is no stranger to challenges of the aquatic kind.

Choosing filmmaking over the family restaurant, this AD helped cement Chicago's straight-shooting image on-screen in films like Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Home Alone.

Sinclair, a banjo-playing fan of bluegrass and country music, compares her role as stage manager to that of a doting mother.

The critic for the Christian Science Monitor wonders why directors don't take their time to tell a story anymore.

Focusing on the improvisatory manner in which Disney and his partners turned a fledgling filmic entertainment into a global industry, Barrier's biography ultimately finds Disney an elusive figure beneath his workaholic tendencies and relentless optimism.

Written in readable, jargon-free prose, Naremore's On Kubrick is the state of the art in deep Kubrick appreciation.

Clocking in under 200 pages, Falk's succinct biography displays deft command of the material, delivering a compressed tour through the life and work of the owner of the most recognizble silhouette in film.

This posthumous memoir from the industry's dapper head of the MPAA details Valenti's eventful life, including his poor childhood in Texas, his time in the White House advising LBJ, and his stewardship of the (in)famous ratings association.