Judith Weston's Directing Actors is the Oxford Dictionary of English for anyone who wants to learn the language that actors and directors speak to each other. It details the work a director must do on their own before meeting with actors if she or he is to be successful in lifting the story to it's most fulfilling expression.Judith Weston's second book, A Film Director's Intuition, minutely describes every fiber in the strands of the rope that the director must finally use to tie all the elements of the writer's subconscious intention and the actor's sub textual imagination together to express the director's vision that Judith's script analysis process produces.Both books are generously peppered with hints on how to best use the little, but valuable time on the set, if that is all you have to spend with the actors.Karen Aschenbach, Director