Film School Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  School, Style, Directors

  "Lake Bell Talks Getting Beat Up in ‘No Escape’ and Her Next Directorial Gig". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. August 28, 2015.

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• I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.

  George Lucas

  Photography, School, Ideas

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• Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress. I cannot believe that quality education costs as much as it does in this country. Ghetto Film School is a remarkable public high school in New York City where students get to learn to express themselves through filmmaking, and have hands-on access to equipment.

  Julia Stiles

  Country, New York, Believe

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• I love films from all these different points of views that used the idea of the school as a way to talk about the American experience. It took me a while to figure how to write a movie like that, because that's not something you learn at film school

  Justin Simien

  Writing, School, Views

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• 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].

  Zach Braff

  School, Kids, Littles

  "Zach Braff Visits Life’s Infinite Abyss in 'Garden State'". Interview with Jonny Leahan, www.indiewire.com. July 27, 2004.

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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 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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• 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'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

  Art, School, Thinking

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• 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

  Writing, School, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.

  Columbus Short

  Moving, Teaching, School

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• 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

  Writing, School, Years

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

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• 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

  School, Film, Made

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

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• 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.

  Ryan Murphy

  School, Parent, Too Much

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• 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

  Spring, School, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

  Pamela Love

  School, Creating, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  School, Artist, Austin

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some point I started getting hungry to see something else. For five years I didn't make any films, I was traveling around the world, writing for newspapers, working in theater, working in opera, I thought I would never return to film.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  School, Writing, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  School, Calling, Manhattan

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  School, Years, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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

  School, Challenges, Done

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Online chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.

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

  Tommy Wiseau

  School, Acting, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I went back to Jamaica after living in New York and started to work on experimental stuff and basically I grew as a filmmaker. I went to film school; I was a PA on a lot of projects and I worked so hard, you know, you're young and I learned from different mentors. And luck put me in the position to work with amazing people. One of my mentors by the name of Little X, who took me under his wing after I came out of film school and moved to New York. I worked in videos for Jay-Z, Pharrell to Busta Rhymes and Wyclef. I quickly realized how much I wanted to make films instead of music videos.

  Storm Saulter

  New York, School, Jamaica

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.

  Abdellah Taia

  Dream, School, Writing

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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• When I was in film school I was learning more theory than practice.

  Louis Leterrier

  School, Practice, Film

  "Exclusive: Louis Leterrier Reveals His Favorite Films, TV Shows, Comics & More Of 2010". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. December 8, 2010.

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