Quentin Tarantino Quotes

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

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

I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.

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.'

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 did not go to film school.

I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

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

The best preparation for work is not thinking about work, talking about work or studying for work. It is work.

My early films look terrible! I didn't know what I was doing. I learned when I was doing it. I never went to film school.

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 don't have a typical filmmaker background. I didn't grow up with a super eight camera or a video camera. I didn't start cutting movies when I was four or five.

As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

The best education in film is to make one

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

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.

The only way you learn is by doing. You learn through deed, so that's kind of my aspiration for the time being.

I learned acting while doing my shows. I never joined any course or anything. I just jumped into acting. I learn from experience.

And it's just my opinion that I don't think film school is necessary for filmmakers. But I don't want to discourage someone who really wants to learn that way.

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.