Film School Quotes

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Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.

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

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.

You will learn more by walking from Canada to Guatemala than you will ever learn in film school.

I didnt go to film school, i went to films

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.

One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie."

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 an idea of what's happening.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an artisan. In a lot of our films, he's constantly trying to give me weird looks.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.

There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

I always wanted to direct movies. That's what I set out to do. When I was a little kid I just dreamed of making movies, and I went to film school [at Northwestern University].

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

I'm a believer in film school.