Jeff Cooper Quotes

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

Now I'm taking some classes, I'm going to school for film, and I think I'm going to end up back in the industry in one capacity or another. I'm not sure where just yet. I kind of stepped away from it for a few years. I thought I was done with it. But I grew up in it. It's such a big part of my life.

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 went to film school; I went to NYU film school.

I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

I think I have a real interest in filmmaking, and it's nice when I can go and do that sometimes. Then it's also great to not do it and not have the responsibility .

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.

I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.

One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie."

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.

All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.

I think I can try the film world out for a while.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

I would love to go to film school.

I'm a believer in film school.