John Pomfret Quotes

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 have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'

You learn more doing than doing training.

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

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.

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.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.

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.

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

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

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.

All directors are different. Certainly, the directors that I respond to the most are guys that figure it out by doing it, not by thinking or studying. Also, the kind of actor that I think I am - I learned about theater doing theater, not studying theater. I think that traditional school can be great, but also it can stifle original thought.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

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'll always be a student. I learn by doing.