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I would love to go to film school.


Sage Stallone
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I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.


Wes Craven
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I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.


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


Leland Orser
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I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.
Paul Schneider
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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
I just remember when I came out of film school - and I loved film school - that the industry was such a mystery. How to break in, and once you are in, how to make a film; that is such a large undertaking. There are thousands of pitfalls.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
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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
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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
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There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.
Olivia Wilde
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
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I was happy when I got into film school. I'd simply satisfied my ambition to show them that I could get in - nothing else - although I do believe they shouldn't have accepted me. I was a complete idiot. I can't understand why they took me. Probably because I'd tried three times.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor's degree in 2003.
Lauren Miller
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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
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My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.
Nigel Hamilton
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If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can't afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
Paul LePage
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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.


Rush Limbaugh
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The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.


Sam Snead
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I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.
Spike Lee
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I couldn't afford to go to drama school in London. Then I met with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, and I fell in love with the city. It was one of the few schools that offered me a place. It didn't do me any harm.
Tom Ellis
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