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

Just based on my own family and background, I would not be in a film that would exploit or sensationalize anyone.

— Lydia Hearst

I am not from any acting background, not from any film family.

— Vishnu Vishal

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

My family background is Mexican, and I was born in Chicago. It's pretty much family tradition every time we get together for Christmas and…

— Ailyn Perez

I think I've always wanted to direct, but I didn't go to film school. I was lucky enough to work in movies, and I…

— Greta Gerwig

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do…

— Richard King

I'm a believer in film school.

— Sean Durkin

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic…

— John Legend

One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's…

— Paul Bloom

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up…

— Brian Grazer

Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an…

— Rafe Spall

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person.…

— Gary Shteyngart

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

— Agnes Varda

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the…

— James Franco