Academy Quote by Yony Leyser

I first started making films - this is my first feature, but I was making shorts - I was actually freelancing as a day…

— Richard Press

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

— Mathieu Amalric

I did important films when I was very young.

— Catherine Deneuve

I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker…

— Daniel Bruhl

I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and…

— Uday Kiran

I was a documentary film-maker for 26 years before I became a full time actor.

— Suhasini Mulay

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

— Elizabeth Olsen

The first movie I was when I was around 16 or 17. It was a hard-core drama, artistic movie. I had never done anything…

— Shira Haas

My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned…

— Bill Paxton

I began my filmmaking career by shooting a feature length documentary in China in 2004, the year I graduated from film school.

— Lee Isaac Chung

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

— Meagan Tandy

I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax with…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda