Film School Quotes - Page 5

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

  Art Alexakis

  School, Acting, Want

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• I spent a lot of time making music and touring around the country and living the weird life. I was just trying to keep a job and get by. So in a lot of ways, I went through a strange version of film school. So you live through a lot of things, and put them into your work.

  Dito Montiel

  Country, Jobs, School

  "Interview: Dito Montiel Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. July 10, 2015.

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• 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

  Writing, School, Nyu

  Source: blog.traderslibrary.com

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• 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

  School, Acting, Film

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• 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

  Couple, Drama, School

  "Producer Adam Shankman Talks STEP UP REVOLUTION Blu-ray/DVD, Future STEP UP Movies, Directing GLEE’s Upcoming Christmas Episode, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 27, 2012.

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

  Judah Friedlander

  School, Self, Taught

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• 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

  School, Thinking, Scary

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• I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same time, I have the experience of working with Steve Starkey for three years. I watched him produce some gigantic movies.

  Lauren Miller

  School, Years, Three

  "FUTURES: Lauren Miller On Giving Her Hubby Seth Rogen a Run For His Money With Sex Comedy ‘For a Good Time, Call…’". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 31, 2012.

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• 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

  School, Motherhood, Goal

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.

  David Mamet

  Drama, School, Useless

  David Mamet (1991). “On directing film”, Viking Pr

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• 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

  School, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Alexa Vega

  School, Nyu, Goes On

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important.

  Richard Donner

  School, Opportunity, Important

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• 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.

  Michael Patrick Jann

  School, Knowing, Connections

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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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• Film schools are not rigorous enough. They let things get by and kids get out there and they think they are saying something and doing something.

  Rob Nilsson

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!

  Tom Six

  Art, Believe, School

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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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• 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

  Fun, School, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• 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."

  George Lucas

  Moving, School, Wish

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be discovered was not our intention. Our intention was to tell our story our way, and make our own mistakes and learn from film to film.

  Haile Gerima

  Mistake, School, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Book, School, Film History

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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.

  Matthew McConaughey

  School, Track, Justice

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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

  School, Thinking, Acting

  "Redefining Himself, On and Off-Camera". The Knoxville News-Sentinel, June 01, 1997.

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• 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

  School, Work Out, Trying

  Source: www.cnn.com

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