Film School Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

  Jonathan Demme

  School, Done, Film

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  School, Opposites, Imagination

  "Saga and Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan talks about making comics his own way". Interview with Oliver Sava, www.avclub.com. November 04, 2012.

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

  Lars von Trier

  School, Film, Form

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• 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.

  School, Nyu, Kind

  "Louis C.K.: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

  George Lucas

  Powerful, School, Care

  "the force". Interview With Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Movie, Writing, School

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

  Rebecca De Mornay

  School, Risky Business, Study

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• My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway.

  Howard Schultz

  Sports, Daughter, School

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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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