Film school Quotes · Page 2

I wish I had gone to a film school.

— Mani Ratnam

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Brian K. Vaughan

I went to film school; I went to NYU film school.

— Jeff Baena

You can't teach creativity at film school.

— Daniel Walker

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

— Mira Nair

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

— Doug Liman

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

— Judah Friedlander

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

— Lauren Miller

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of…

— Michael Moore

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

— Art Alexakis

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I…

— Sarah Polley

And it's just my opinion that I don't think film school is necessary for filmmakers. But I don't want to discourage someone…

— Dave McCary

There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing…

— Olivia Wilde

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have…

— David Mamet

Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about…

— Matt Charman

Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they…

— James Franco

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do…

— Melvin Van Peebles

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

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

I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school,…

— Jason Silva

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

I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris…

— Abdellah Taia

Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it…

— Christine Swanson

I even went to film school at School of Visual Arts in New York City. And then, after that, I got a…

— Michael Giacchino

I did it [photojournalism] as something that was really rewarding to do, given the opportunity to express myself about something I cared…

— Curtis Hanson

I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies. I did it as something that…

— Curtis Hanson

I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where…

— Ed Helms

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

I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.

— Kathleen Kennedy

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

— Curtis Hanson

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

— Edward Burns

I never liked 'Donnie Darko' quite as much as my film school peers.

— Justin Simien

I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

— Tobias Lindholm

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

— Robert Zemeckis