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Dwight Little's Hollywood career spans from directing and producing major motion pictures for multiple studios to acclaimed television series and even video games. In this memoir, he takes readers along on a movie-making adventure that is by turns funny, brutally honest, and always revealing. There are many on-set interactions with well-known producers and stars along with detailed descriptions of film shoots from the wilds of India to the banks of the River Kwai. Included are tales from the jails of Madrid to the jungles of Fiji and the cold war streets of Budapest. Along the way, the work seamlessly connects the Golden Age of Hollywood to the highly successful premium television of today.Make or break creative battles, Hollywood intrigues, unpredictable studio executives, and temperamental actors are all documented in colourful detail. Whether the reader is an aspiring filmmaker or just a movie lover, this book has it all, including a unique insight into television directing in the new streaming age.

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"""Dwight Little had done the near-impossible--sustained a decades-long career as a director. In this funny, revealing, generous book, Dwight tells us how he did it--including insights on how to get movie and TV stars to think your ideas are their ideas, when to favor personal loyalty over personal advancement (and when not to!), how to turn disaster into opportunity, how to make a gigantic train look like it's moving when it's not, and how to know when your goose is (temporarily) cooked.""--Hart Hanson, creator and showrunner of Bones"

"Dwight Little had done the near-impossible—sustained a decades-long career as a director. In this funny, revealing, generous book, Dwight tells us how he did it—including insights on how to get movie and TV stars to think your ideas are their ideas, when to favor personal loyalty over personal advancement (and when not to!), how to turn disaster into opportunity, how to make a gigantic train look like it's moving when it's not, and how to know when your goose is (temporarily) cooked.""—Hart Hanson, creator and showrunner of Bones"

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DGA member Dwight Little has directed studio movies for Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, and multiple independent movies with wide theatrical release. He has also directed three television movies and ninety hours of Network Television. He lives in Bell Canyon, California.

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