Assistants Quote by Mike Lookinland

I got my master's degree and then started working as a production assistant. I was writing my debut film, the crime drama 'Little Woods,'…

— Nia DaCosta

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

— Mathieu Amalric

I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills…

— Manish Dayal

I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I come from a production assistant background. That was my first role on a set before even being an actor, that and writing.

— Quinta Brunson

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

— Dermot Mulroney

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

— Ajay Naidu

I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.

— Roger Moore

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

Before I became an actor, I was a producer and a visual effects supervisor. Our industry wasn't making the kind of films I was…

— Rana Daggubati

I worked as a production assistant on a couple of films, and finally, I got a job at an animation studio as an editor.…

— Thomas Schlamme

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film…

— Park Chan-wook