Film school Quotes · Page 2

I'm a believer in film school.

— Sean Durkin

I did not go to film school.

— Anonymous

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

— Quentin Tarantino

I wish I had gone to a film school.

— Mani Ratnam

I love doing research. I'm a film-school geek.

— Brian K. Vaughan

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

— Quentin Tarantino

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU…

— Amandla Stenberg

The film-school mantra is that if you don't tell your own stories, nobody will.

— Mira Nair

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

— Zach Braff

I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.

— Paul Schneider

Another part of my background was that I was in film school.

— Tom Anderson

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

— Alan Taylor

I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

— Judah Friedlander

I'm starting at USC's film school for directing this month. I'll try to get a semester in at a time. I'll have…

— Skyler Gisondo

When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school,…

— Raoul Peck

Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if…

— Boots Riley

But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about…

— Lauren Miller

After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back…

— Devin Ratray

Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that…

— Roger Deakins

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too,…

— Joseph Mazzello

When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of…

— Pawel Pawlikowski

“I spent most of my life trying to specialize myself. I went to theater school, film school, music school, mime school ...…

— Nuno Roque

What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey',…

— Jeremy Davies

I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming…

— Don Hertzfeldt

Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more…

— Jacob Batalon

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film…

— Agnes Varda

I spent a lot of time making music and touring around the country and living the weird life. I was just trying…

— Dito Montiel

When I started acting, my mom said, "If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is…

— Jay Baruchel

“During the 1970s (and particularly because of Vietnam), it slowly became standard for absolutely everyone to go to college, particularly if they…

— Chuck Klosterman

I run my own film school, the Rogue Film School, and I do it over three and a half days, eight hours…

— Werner Herzog

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.

— Doug Liman

I never went to film school, so I just sort of learned on my own.

— Steven Sebring

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

— Tom Six

Working on '2001' was my film school. Stanley Kubrick was my mentor.

— Douglas Trumbull

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

— Alexa Vega

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

— F. Gary Gray

I got into film school thinking I was going to make features, like every other film geek.

— Hiro Murai