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I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to. ~ Lake Bell
Film School quotes by Lake Bell
In order to get [Mean Streets] made I had to learn how to make a movie," says Scorsese. "I didn't learn how to make a movie in film school. What you learned in film school was to express yourself with pictures and sound. But learning to make a movie is totally different. ~ Peter Biskind
Film School quotes by Peter Biskind
The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lock picking or forging shooting permits in countries not favoring their projects. In short: for those who have a sense of poetry. For those who are pilgrims. For those who can tell a story to four year old children and hold their attention. For those who have a fire burning within. For those who have a dream. ~ Werner Herzog
Film School quotes by Werner Herzog
My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer and director, in terms of knowing what is playable and what will be fun to play, for actors, and also how to communicate to actors on set, and not screw them up and get them in their head. ~ Josh Radnor
Film School quotes by Josh Radnor
I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas. ~ Tobias Lindholm
Film School quotes by Tobias Lindholm
I just feel like it's so amazing every few years when I'm not making a film to act and basically go back to film school and just watch other filmmakers work and try to be a part of somebody else's vision. So I feel like you do use two very different parts of your brain, and it's great to be able to jump back and forth. ~ Sarah Polley
Film School quotes by Sarah Polley
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. ~ James Franco
Film School quotes by James Franco
Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made. ~ Krzysztof Kieslowski
Film School quotes by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly. ~ Victoria Aveyard
Film School quotes by Victoria Aveyard
Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption in that is that most of what I acted in the last 10 years was to steal film school time from these guys. Those were the people I thought I could learn from as a director. ~ Sean Penn
Film School quotes by Sean Penn
When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of film school because I didn't. I was just putting them together somehow as the spirit moved me, following my nose, thinking I was brilliant. ~ Pawel Pawlikowski
Film School quotes by Pawel Pawlikowski
My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the minds of millions. My job as a director has produced masterpieces that will be taught in film school for ages. ~ Zach Braff
Film School quotes by Zach Braff
I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it. ~ Tom Rachman
Film School quotes by Tom Rachman
I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience. ~ Jodie Foster
Film School quotes by Jodie Foster
My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway. ~ Howard Schultz
Film School quotes by Howard Schultz
I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do. ~ Morten Tyldum
Film School quotes by Morten Tyldum
A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them. ~ Peter Dinklage
Film School quotes by Peter Dinklage
I think a lot of directors, they come out of film school, they don't know anything about acting. Or they're writers that don't know anything about the process. And I think they're afraid sometimes to talk to actors and be honest with actors. ~ Matt Dillon
Film School quotes by Matt Dillon
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. ~ Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Film School quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher
You don't necessarily have to go to film school to be a brilliant film maker. If you are a good listener and you study life, and you find that story that is buried within each and every one of us, and you figure out a way to bring that out. And sometimes it doesn't necessarily mean money or winning the lottery. ~ Tony Todd
Film School quotes by Tony Todd
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. ~ Brian De Palma
Film School quotes by Brian De Palma
Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film. ~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Film School quotes by Gina Prince-Bythewood
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. ~ James Franco
Film School quotes by James Franco
Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they try to push you to find your voice or your thing, is that I got a lot of things out of adaptations. ~ James Franco
Film School quotes by James Franco
I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I was a very bad student. I just devoured film, but there was a point in my teens when I started to run a little film society. ~ Paul Haggis
Film School quotes by Paul Haggis
When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice. ~ Louis Leterrier
Film School quotes by Louis Leterrier
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do. ~ Quentin Tarantino
Film School quotes by Quentin Tarantino
I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to. ~ Danny McBride
Film School quotes by Danny McBride
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. ~ Justin Zackham
Film School quotes by Justin Zackham
I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school. ~ Paul Schneider
Film School quotes by Paul Schneider
After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better. ~ Bryce Dallas Howard
Film School quotes by Bryce Dallas Howard
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. ~ Louis C.K.
Film School quotes by Louis C.K.
'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?' ~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Film School quotes by Gina Prince-Bythewood
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. ~ Peter Jackson
Film School quotes by Peter Jackson
I love doing research. I'm a film-school geek. ~ Brian K. Vaughan
Film School quotes by Brian K. Vaughan
Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it is is troubleshooting and dealing with different personalities and emotions and trying to make everybody happy and at the end of the day reaching your own personal goals and agendas. ~ Christine Swanson
Film School quotes by Christine Swanson
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. ~ Amelia Warner
Film School quotes by Amelia Warner
I didnt go to film school, i went to films ~ Quentin Tarantino
Film School quotes by Quentin Tarantino
I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes. ~ David Steinberg
Film School quotes by David Steinberg
I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap. ~ Jim Coleman
Film School quotes by Jim Coleman
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. ~ David Ayer
Film School quotes by David Ayer
I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So it's kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it's the exact opposite of my film school experience. ~ Don Hertzfeldt
Film School quotes by Don Hertzfeldt
I can't even remember not wanting to go to film school. ~ Danny McBride
Film School quotes by Danny McBride
I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story. ~ King Bach
Film School quotes by King Bach
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' ~ Quentin Tarantino
Film School quotes by Quentin Tarantino
I did not go to film school. ~ Richard King
Film School quotes by Richard King
After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while. ~ Tobias Lindholm
Film School quotes by Tobias Lindholm
I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made. ~ Lauren Miller
Film School quotes by Lauren Miller
I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen. ~ Jonathan Demme
Film School quotes by Jonathan Demme
I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B. ~ Michael Moore
Film School quotes by Michael Moore
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 things that I enjoy about filmmaking. ~ Peter Jackson
Film School quotes by Peter Jackson
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. ~ Jeff Cooper
Film School quotes by Jeff Cooper
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. ~ Adam Shankman
Film School quotes by Adam Shankman
I awake with a start, shaking the cobwebs of sleep from my mind. It's pitch-dark out, the wind howling. It takes a couple seconds to get my bearings, to realize I'm in my parents' bed, Ryder beside me, on his side, facing me. Our hands are still joined, though our fingers are slack now.
"Hey, you," he says sleepily. "That one was loud, huh?"
"What was?"
"Thunder. Rattled the windows pretty bad."
"What time is it?"
"Middle of the night, I'd say."
I could check my phone, but that would require sitting up and letting go of his hand. Right now, I don't want to do that. I'm too comfortable. "Have you gotten any sleep at all?" I ask him, my mouth dry and cottony.
"I think I drifted off for a little bit. Till…you know…the thunder started up again."
"Oh. Sorry."
"It should calm down some when the eye moves through."
"If there's still an eye by the time it gets here. The center of circulation usually starts breaking up once it goes inland." Yeah, all those hours watching the Weather Channel occasionally come in handy.
He gives my hand a gentle squeeze. "Wow, maybe you should consider studying meteorology. You know, if the whole film-school thing doesn't work out for you."
"I could double major," I shoot back.
"I bet you could."
"What are you going to study?" I ask, curious now. "I mean, besides football. You've got to major in something, don't you?"
He doesn't answer right away. I wonder what's going through hi ~ Kristi Cook
Film School quotes by Kristi Cook
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student. ~ Ira Sachs
Film School quotes by Ira Sachs
So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here. ~ Danny McBride
Film School quotes by Danny McBride
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. ~ Alexis Bledel
Film School quotes by Alexis Bledel
My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I've forgotten how I did it. I don't believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love. ~ Christopher Doyle
Film School quotes by Christopher Doyle
Going to film school taught me how much I already knew, and that the best way to learn about film is being on the set with professionals. ~ Devin Ratray
Film School quotes by Devin Ratray
I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school. ~ Rebecca De Mornay
Film School quotes by Rebecca De Mornay
To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to. ~ Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Film School quotes by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist. ~ Jay Duplass
Film School quotes by Jay Duplass
Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get. ~ Matt Charman
Film School quotes by Matt Charman
A knot grew in his chest. All signs of weakness, nerves, stress. He looked around him at the true examples of men - at least it seemed that way. Six years ago he had graduated from New York University, around the middle of his class in film school. He quickly learned that the middle meant "unemployable. ~ Derek Blass
Film School quotes by Derek Blass
I learned how to direct by being in the trenches of movies. Getting to be a student from the inside looking out, and if you're a respectful observer you can sponge lots of information. That was my film school. ~ Lake Bell
Film School quotes by Lake Bell
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. ~ William Friedkin
Film School quotes by William Friedkin
I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good. ~ Richard King
Film School quotes by Richard King
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. ~ Danny McBride
Film School quotes by Danny McBride
I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater. ~ Jon Favreau
Film School quotes by Jon Favreau
So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had so many studies with big fancy words where you could dissect a movie and make charts of all of the characters' complicated inner relations and themes and what does this mean? And it's overwhelming as a student. It's great for a student, but as a writer, it's paralyzing. ~ Don Hertzfeldt
Film School quotes by Don Hertzfeldt
In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery. ~ Tamra Davis
Film School quotes by Tamra Davis
Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off of a film at Sundance for millions of dollars. You can do the same with a female. It's not a risk about the work if you respect the film that they made. ~ Gina Prince-Bythewood
Film School quotes by Gina Prince-Bythewood
I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry. ~ Ava DuVernay
Film School quotes by Ava DuVernay
I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn't have a film major; they do have a film minor.And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student - they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester. ~ Ed Helms
Film School quotes by Ed Helms
I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made. ~ George Lucas
Film School quotes by George Lucas
I would love to go to film school. ~ Sage Stallone
Film School quotes by Sage Stallone
I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact. ~ Agnes Varda
Film School quotes by Agnes Varda
It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug. ~ Benn Northover
Film School quotes by Benn Northover
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school. ~ Jeremy Davies
Film School quotes by Jeremy Davies
I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years. ~ Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Film School quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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. ~ Terry Gilliam
Film School quotes by Terry Gilliam
I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror movies are a great way to go. ~ Jonathan Levine
Film School quotes by Jonathan Levine
I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school. ~ Alexa Vega
Film School quotes by Alexa Vega
I came out of film school and went after movies that I thought audiences wanted to see or that the studios wanted, as opposed to the movies that I wanted. Over the last 10 years, I've gravitated more and more toward the films that I grew up loving - classic Spielberg, Lucas, James Cameron and Ridley Scott movies. ~ Simon Kinberg
Film School quotes by Simon Kinberg
After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back doing six-day-a-week shoots, 14-hour days, and no guarantee of distribution. ~ Devin Ratray
Film School quotes by Devin Ratray
I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times. ~ Krzysztof Kieslowski
Film School quotes by Krzysztof Kieslowski
As an actress, I never went to film school, and I think if I had gone to film school, I would have started with a great advantage. If you have a strong intent to do anything in life, you can do it, but it always helps to have formal training. ~ Preity Zinta
Film School quotes by Preity Zinta
During the 1970s (and particularly because of Vietnam), it slowly became standard for absolutely everyone to go to college, particularly if they had no desire to get a real job. One of the results was a massive population of film school students, most of whom became waiters and valets in the 1980s. Since the vast majority of these Kubrick wannabes couldn't crack the motion picture industry, they saw opportunities to make minimovies in the world of rock 'n' roll. ~ Chuck Klosterman
Film School quotes by Chuck Klosterman
I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment. ~ Nancy Meyers
Film School quotes by Nancy Meyers
What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent filmmaker in my own right some day. ~ Jeremy Davies
Film School quotes by Jeremy Davies
I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story. ~ Julie Delpy
Film School quotes by Julie Delpy
I'm a bit of a weird creature ... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate. ~ Don Hertzfeldt
Film School quotes by Don Hertzfeldt
I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year. ~ Darren Star
Film School quotes by Darren Star
I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. ~ Tommy Wiseau
Film School quotes by Tommy Wiseau
All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you. ~ Glenn Ficarra
Film School quotes by Glenn Ficarra
To be honest, the core reason why I became an actor was that I didn't want to go to school. That's where it started. I hated opening my history books and my English books, but then, of course, you grow older. I went to film school in New York, and that's when you really realize that you have to grow up now. It's not child's play anymore. ~ Ranbir Kapoor
Film School quotes by Ranbir Kapoor
I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies. ~ Michael Moore
Film School quotes by Michael Moore
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. ~ Zach Braff
Film School quotes by Zach Braff
I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema. ~ Cary Fukunaga
Film School quotes by Cary Fukunaga
You okay?" I ask him.
He nods. "I'll live. Hey, it's your turn."
"My turn for what?"
"I told you my deepest, darkest secret." He tilts his head at me. "Now you've got to tell me one of yours."
"One of my secrets?"
"Yeah. C'mon, I know you've got a bunch of 'em."
"Oh, I do, huh?"
"You're too perfect not to be hiding something," he says, and my cheeks flood with heat.
Me, too perfect? He's got to be kidding. Only…he looks serious. And earnest. I look down at the camera in my hand, studying it, and then back up at him. I can't explain it, but I suddenly want to tell him. At least, I want to tell someone, and he's here, a captive audience. I hesitate a second or two, then blurt it out before I lose my nerve.
"I want to go to film school." I meet his gaze, his eyes round with surprise. "In New York. ~ Kristi Cook
Film School quotes by Kristi Cook
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