Film school Quotes · Page 3

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

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

— Judah Friedlander

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

— Wong Kar-wai

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

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

— Lars von Trier

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

— Werner Herzog

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

— Quentin Tarantino

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

— Jonathan Demme

I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just…

— Christopher Guest

It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with…

— Benn Northover

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I started learning filmmaking by joining a weekend film school in Bengaluru. I made some amateur short films that got appreciation from…

— Karthik Subbaraj

I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror…

— Jonathan Levine

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

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional -…

— William Friedkin

One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish…

— George Lucas

Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption…

— Sean Penn

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

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

So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had…

— Don Hertzfeldt

I would study film. I was accepted into USC as well as the film school, because that's two separate processes. But I…

— Michelle Trachtenberg

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

— Agnes Varda

I spent a lot of time making music and touring around the country and living the weird life. I was just trying…

— Dito Montiel

When I started acting, my mom said, "If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is…

— Jay Baruchel

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

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

— Tye Sheridan

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

— Jim Coleman

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

— Lynne Ramsay

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

— Darby Allin

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

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

— Jon Watts

We decided around fourth or fifth grade that we were going to go to film school.

— Matt Duffer

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

— Dave McCary

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

— Julie Delpy

I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

— Jonathan Ke Quan

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

— Tim Heidecker

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

— Hiro Murai

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

— Jacob Batalon

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

— Louis Leterrier