Film School Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  School, Giving, Trying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  School, Gone, Slugs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Hero, Writing, School

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Danny McBride

  School, Remember, Film

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Tim Heidecker

  School, Dope, People

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• 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

  School, Years, Two

  "James Franco Talks ‘The Broken Tower’ and Addresses His Critics". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• 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

  School, Kids, Avid

  "Jodie Foster On “The Beaver” and Making Personal Films". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. March 17, 2011.

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• 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.

  Agnes Varda

  School, Thinking, Cameras

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

  Edward Burns

  School, Kids, Acting

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• Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

  David Fincher

  Movie, Education, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Roger Deakins

  School, Interesting, Faces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Couple, School, Years

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• I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Beautiful, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  School, Ideas, Want

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

  Julie Delpy

  School, Stories, Film

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

  Jonathan Demme

  School, Done, Film

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

  Charles S. Dutton

  School, Acting, Film

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

  Ava DuVernay

  School, Niche, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

  Ava DuVernay

  School, Privilege, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.

  James Brolin

  School, Cameras, Directors

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• 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

  Writing, School, Thinking

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 8, 2002.

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

  Werner Herzog

  School, Guatemala, Canada

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• 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

  Beautiful, School, Opposites

  "Animator Don Hertzfeldt, Picturing Matchstick Men and You". Interview with Luke Y.Thompson, www.therobotsvoice.com. April 24, 2015.

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• 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

  School, Trying, Wish

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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

  Jobs, Children, School

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