Academia Quote by Werner Herzog

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

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

— Werner Herzog

As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have started with…

— Preity Zinta

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a…

— George Lucas

I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.

— Sally Potter

I live in France, I don't live in the States and I don't live in London, so I'm not immersed in the profession. I…

— Paterson Joseph

I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the…

— Peter Jackson

You get told a lot in school to tell what you know, write what you know. But what excites me about filmmaking, about being…

— Anna Boden

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 just kept doing videos and whatever. So I guess I learned my education from just experience. Figuring…

— Russell Mulcahy

I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Sometimes, the fate of a film is not in your hands, and you can only take home some experiences and what you got to…

— Kiara Advani