Film Studies Quotes

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.

Films are my first love.

Films are all I know. I wouldn't know what to do with a day off.

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

I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.

I just loved films. I knew I wanted to work on film, not video.

I went to film school at UT Austin.

Another part of my background was that I was in film school.

I am obsessed with cinema and its history.

I always knew I wanted to be in films, but I did not know exactly what I wanted to do.

I did not go to film school.

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

I wish I had gone to a film school.

Films just happened to me. After coming to the industry, I became dedicated.

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

I feel extremely secure to be part of the film industry.

The first time I saw Douglas Sirk was in college. I didn't encounter him on the late, late, late show like a lot of people; people a little older than me, maybe. But I saw him already as someone to take special note of in an academic context in college. I was immediately in a state of visual splendor.

I watched John Wayne movies, matinees - things like that. It was only in college that I saw European films. That became more of what I was interested in.

I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA.

I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.

I have only one passion in life - cinema.

I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.