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
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
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
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
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 started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris… — Abdellah Taia 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 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 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 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 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
You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have… — Preity Zinta 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
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
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'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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the… — Zach Braff 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
I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years, and really thought I was going to be… — Scott Adsit Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of Spider-Man as a kid, and I loved the Todd MacFarlane run in the 1990s, and the first… — Jon Watts Copy Share Image
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder how my filmmaking would have been affected by film school but in the end I'm glad I got to… — Riley Stearns Copy Share Image