The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional -… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I wanted to do comic books... as a comic book artist, as an illustrator. But I'm not very good so I thought… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major… — Richard Donner Copy Share Image
I began my filmmaking career by shooting a feature length documentary in China in 2004, the year I graduated from film school. — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
At the time I left film school there wasn't a lot of hope for young film-makers. It was a calling card of… — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens… — Columbus Short Copy Share Image
I spent a year and a half working for an art fair. I worked as a post-production assistant for a documentary film… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,'… — Jonathan Ke Quan Copy Share Image
I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school,… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school;… — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
I know, when I was in film school, some of my films were silly, but a lot of them were more dramatic.… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something… — Amelia Warner Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where… — Mark Romanek Copy Share Image
I took an internship at Focus Features while I was in film school. I was really interested in how specialty movies were… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so… — Barry Jenkins Copy Share Image
I did go to a film school in Sarajevo. I studied film and theatre directing. There was a war raging in the… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections… — Michael Patrick Jann Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I told my mother I wanted to be an actress, and the next thing I know is that I'm studying in a… — Bhumi Pednekar Copy Share Image
I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
I remember in film school, when we made shorts, you'd sit there and screen them with your peers, which has its own… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of women in film school. I was not the only woman in my class at UCLA. When I… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
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