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I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.
I actually went to film school and was making experimental films for a short time, so it wasn't such a leap.
Film school was frustrating for me at first but I met some cool people like Lucia Zucchetti - she was amazing.
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.
I've made some great movies. 'Risky Business' still stands up. It's timeless. They study that film in film school.
There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.
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.
I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.
I was at film school when I made 'Small Debts' and I was a cinematographer, so I didn't actually study to be a director.
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.
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.
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
I told my mother I wanted to be an actress, and the next thing I know is that I'm studying in a very expensive film school.
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.
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.
I went to film school, and I came in when video art was king, weird stuff was king, and there, you don't have a script as your bible.
'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.
I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger.
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.
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.
I was in my 30s when I finally went to film school. It was kind of always going to happen, but I did try to keep it suppressed for awhile.
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.
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.
I studied economics. I studied industrial engineering. It wasn't until later, when I was around 26, that I really decided to go to film school.
I didn't go to film school. I didn't graduate college with an acting degree or a theater degree. I didn't have the traditional route of training.
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.
I'd always wanted to write a novel, but after attending film school, I'd spent five years knocking on Hollywood's door and had put that idea aside.
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.
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.
My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethiopia. I am homosexual. I didn't go to film school.
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.
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.
A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.
When you start out, you're hungry to take any job. I didn't go to film school - I went from high school to a show about high school and on to directing.
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.
I started learning filmmaking by joining a weekend film school in Bengaluru. I made some amateur short films that got appreciation from people around me.
Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A.
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.
I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom's whole world was caving in.
I was in film school as an undergrad with a focus on directing. Once I started working on shoots, I realized, 'Oh, I really like this cinematography thing.'
Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.
And it's just my opinion that I don't think film school is necessary for filmmakers. But I don't want to discourage someone who really wants to learn that way.
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.
I really learned a lot when I worked on my grandpa's film 'Twixt' and got to be with him start to finish and sit next to him every day. That was my film school.
I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking.
I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror movies are a great way to go.
I went to Columbia film school; that's where I met Matthew Weisman. We then became writing partners, graduated, and moved out to Los Angeles. I didn't know a soul.
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.
I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.