Cool Behind-the Scenes Photos Of Directors On The Sets Of Your Favorite Movies

How do movie directors make their day? With the pressure of egotistical actors, fragile writers and bullish execs, how does anyone make a successful movie?

For these film directors on set, even when a behind-the-scenes camera points in their face, they just roll up their sleeves and get to work. So grab your press pass.

Because it’s time to look at the most influential and iconic film directors on set.

Wes Craven – Scream

It takes a strange alchemy of luck, talent, and timing to craft an iconic film that changes the world.

Wes Craven made at least two: A Nightmare On Elm Street and Scream. The latter, a self-aware slasher equal parts chiller and critique (even lampooning tropes perfected by Craven himself), begins with an infamous prologue starring a blonde Drew Barrymore. Yes, Mr. Craven, we like scary movies.

Martin Scorsese – Goodfellas

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Not gonna lie, this photo is here to amuse us. No matter how shocking or violent a film scene can be, it loses a bit of its provocative luster when you realize it boils down to a bunch of folks standing around figuring out how to do it. Martin Scorsese looks downright perplexed here!

Mary Harron – American Psycho

Mary Harron, tasked with adapting a famously controversial, graphically violent novel, knew she had to make it independently to get what she wanted. Some bigger studios interested in financing the project wanted Patrick Bateman to be more sympathetic, or to make it a conventional detective story. Lucky for us, she stuck to her guns.

Sam Raimi – Evil Dead

Pictured here with groovy star Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi shows us just how young, inexperienced, and headstrong he was when making his first film, the low budget cult horror classic Evil Dead. The shooting experience was nightmarish; at one point, the low temperatures combined with lack of winter clothing meant that Raimi, as he puts it, “started to die.”