A collection of interviews with the prolific Austro-Hungarian-born director known for challenging the status quo in Hollywood throughout his trailblazing career directing films like The Moon is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Anatomy of a Murder

Gary Bettinson is senior lecturer in film studies at Lancaster University. He is author of The Sensuous Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance and editor-in-chief of the journal Asian Cinema. He is also coauthor of What Is Film Theory? An Introduction to Contemporary Debates.