Dito Montiel Quotes

Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

One of the brilliant things I realised after I'd left school is that there are so many ways you can learn. I do this best on the job.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

I always believe that a person can learn so much by just jumping into something and trying to do it rather than having someone else teach you everything.

You can learn so much just by doing, not by listening to anybody.

You learn more doing than doing training.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

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

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts.

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

No one was like, 'Here's how you swing.' It was just like, 'Let's go hit and figure it out along the way.' I always kind of figured it out.

I educate myself, but I haven't got the time or patience to enlist myself in a degree course. The world is my school.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.