Film school Quotes · Page 3

Film is a very specific world in which I don't think you really need to go to film school.

— Dave McCary

Every film you see in film school takes on a heightened importance in your life.

— Jon Watts

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

— Ava DuVernay

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Before wrestling, I went to film school and dropped out.

— Darby Allin

Film school was frustrating for me at first but I met some cool people like Lucia Zucchetti - she was amazing.

— Lynne Ramsay

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.

— Jim Coleman

I was a political science major before I transferred into film school.

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

I went to Princeton to major in comparative literature. I never went to film school, but I studied storytelling across mediums -…

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just…

— George Lucas

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.

— Rebecca De Mornay

One of the great things going on in Chicago is the educational facilities here. And the largest film school in the world…

— Gary Sherman

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in…

— Joshua Malina

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film…

— Jeremy Davies

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked.…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once…

— Julia Stiles

I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that…

— Jim Jarmusch

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12…

— Nancy Meyers

I was always screwing around with music, but I really wanted to go to film school when I was in high school.…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

“In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how…

— Peter Biskind

I was at the National Film School and was a cinematographer there. I got quite a lot of experience on documentary film-making…

— Lynne Ramsay

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of…

— Mark Waters

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

— Tye Sheridan

It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie.

— Leland Orser

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

— Louis Leterrier

I studied in a Catholic school in Oahu, and I went to a film school in New York.

— Jacob Batalon

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

— Hiro Murai

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

— Tim Heidecker

I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.

— Wong Kar-wai

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

— Judah Friedlander

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.

— Robert Zemeckis

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

— Jonathan Demme

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

— Quentin Tarantino

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

— Werner Herzog

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

— Lars von Trier

I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.

— Steve Carr

I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go…

— Raoul Peck