Film School Quotes

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

  Quentin Tarantino

  School, People, Film

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

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• Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

  James Cameron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friends

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.117, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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

  Teacher, School, Cinema

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• I steal from every movie ever made.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Stealing, Made, Filmmaker

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• I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, 'Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?'

  Wong Kar-wai

  School, What If, Curiosity

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 10, 2008.

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• 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

  School, Training, Film

  "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" Radio program, June 23, 2007.

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• My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the 'Bad Day at Black Rock' laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Book, School, Bad Day

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

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Mistake, School, Doubt

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• I'm not coming from film school, I learned cinema in the cinema watching films.

  Wong Kar-wai

  School, Cinema, Film

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 10, 2008.

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• I applied [to film school] figuring, "I need to find some structure for myself. I need to find a way to figure out what kind of filmmaker I want to be." And that is what film school provides you with. It'll teach you the basics of how a production works and the technical side of how to put everything together, but you could also learn that by working on film sets.

  Meera Menon

  School, Together, Needs

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  School, Want, Information

  "Paul Thomas Anderson Says You'll Learn More from This Commentary Track Than in 20 Years of Film School" by Alison Nastasi, www.movies.com. December 18, 2012.

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• You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it gives you that incubation and time to figure out who you are, what kind of stories you want to tell, and how you want to forge your path.

  Meera Menon

  School, Giving, Stories

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• And so I look back on not just the last ten years but everything that I've done as being sort of an ongoing growing continual film school. I mean I don't think I've got to a point where I've achieved anything that feels like, a particular milestone, but there's still a lot more to learn and hopefully a lot more films to make.

  Peter Jackson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  Dark Horizons Interview, March 27, 2006.

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• I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how to hold a camera, how to use a Dx3 menu. You can learn that in five minutes from somebody that doesn't even know anything. But what do you know if you haven't read anything - studied art and studied literature - what do you have to contribute?

  Rob Nilsson

  Art, School, Kids

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• 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

  School, Opposites, Sitting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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

  Real, Teaching, School

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  School, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  F. Gary Gray

  School, Artist, Creative

  Source: collider.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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• 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 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

  School, Years, Lasts

  "Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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