Ava DuVernay Quotes

I couldn't afford to go to an out-of-state school.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.'

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

In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price.

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me.

I can't afford to send three kids to college and support four more on a Government salary.

The cost of a university education is risen faster than the rate of inflation for decades.

It’s absolutely the case that the low cost college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid that I was able to receive made my education possible.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to just keep enjoying myself.

I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.

I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.

It's never too early to start thinking about tuition.