Day Quote by Takashi Miike

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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

I was a good student. For a while, my parents did make me cope with school and films simultaneously. But after a point, this…

— Sridevi

I finished high school and college - I actually moved to New York to study film - and was always working in theaters and…

— Natalia Reyes

I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead…

— Ira Sachs

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In…

— Felicity Huffman

I didn't go to film school. I just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring…

— Russell Mulcahy

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Dermot Mulroney

I wanted to be a filmmaker, so my parents helped me by encouraging me to save my allowance. So I bought my first video…

— Zal Batmanglij

When I was 18 or 19, my one ambition was to make a film.

— Peter Brook

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

— Ava DuVernay