Cinema Quote by Robert Mayer

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students…

— Brian De Palma

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

— Anonymous

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 who really…

— Dave McCary

Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is…

— Roger Ebert

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

— Mark Poster

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I never studied film in my life. It's something that, it helps.

— Sebastian Janikowski

When I talk to film students, I always say, "Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

— Sydney Pollack

I don't ask my students to have studied film or any education in general. What I ask them is to come and sit and…

— Abbas Kiarostami

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 found them…

— David Mamet

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

— Richard King