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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

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

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

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

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do. — Quentin Tarantino

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way. — Andrew Lincoln

'Lord of the Rings' was going on; like, my college years were the years of 'Lord of the Rings,' an awesome time to be in film school. — Evan Daugherty

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

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something. — Bel Powley

I never studied film formally at school, but as a kid, I spent most of my time in cinemas. — Wong Kar-Wai

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

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

I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be. — Sean Bean

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

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

I would love to go to film school. — Sage Stallone

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. — Mike Myers

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

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

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

It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie. — Leland Orser

When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film. — Cate Blanchett

I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental. — Asif Kapadia

I didnt go to film school, i went to films — Quentin Tarantino

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program. — David Brooks

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

When I was in school, and even after, I did a lot of classic plays, and I guess it sort of extended into film. — Andre Holland

When I was younger and in primary school, I'd do maybe a film a year, and I had to adapt to being away from everyone for a couple of months. — Saoirse Ronan

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

I'm a believer in film school. — Sean Durkin

I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film. — Scott Adsit

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

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice. — Louis Leterrier

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

I left drama school and went straight into a 10-week film for which I was paid $75 I might say, which for 1962 was one heck of a lot of money. — John Hurt

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

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. — Ray Harryhausen

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

I went to Bournemouth Film School for 3 years. — Joe Cornish

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

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

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour. — Lars Von Trier

I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school. — Paul Schneider

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.' — Quentin Tarantino

Maybe not many women are going to film school. — Gillian Armstrong

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

I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas. — Tobias Lindholm

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

I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school. — Rebecca De Mornay

I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap. — Jim Coleman

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught. — Judah Friedlander

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

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film. — Orlando Bloom

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it. — Colin Trevorrow

Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!" — Zoe Kravitz

I love doing research. I'm a film-school geek. — Brian K. Vaughan

I don't subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn't dabble in television, web content, or even comic books ... — Adi Shankar

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies. — Zach Braff

I did not go to film school. — Richard King

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

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

Film school was a privilege I could not afford. — Ava DuVernay

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

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made. — Lauren Miller

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

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 students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema. — Bernardo Bertolucci

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

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread. — Dexter Fletcher

I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected. — Wes Craven

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.

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

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school. — Charles S. Dutton

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting. — Edward Burns

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

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

I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff. — Mike Epps

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done. — Joshua Malina