“My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.” FirstsSchoolLeftActingSkillsTheaterTownsCamerasBackgroundsSmall TownMovie Theater Author:Franka Potente
“I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking.” RealSchoolStuffCamerasPracticalsFilmmakingOld School Author:David Ayer
“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.” WellsLongSchoolArtistProcessMediaDogCreationPaintingPhotographyPerformancesCamerasBackgroundsSettingVideoSettingsCollaborationFascinatedSixtyInstallation Author:William Wegman
“The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!” SchoolPerfectRecordsDogStudentsDrugPoliceCamerasPrisonVideoAll TimeChainsPreparationLinksMetalsRegimesFenceComprehensiveLockersPosingUndercoverSniffingVideo CamerasInformantsWhereaboutsMetal DetectorsChain Links Author:Charles Eisenstein
“Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.” BelieveSchoolOrderNeededDisciplineCamerasOfficialsPublic School Author:Paul Weyrich
“I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.” IfsThinkingSchoolFacesUsedTeacherDramaCamerasRememberedYour FaceMantras Author:Ruth Wilson
“I had gotten rid of the crying when I got to high school, though it happened again when I was a junior. We lost in the state championship. It was kind of the same situation, camera in my face, and then that's when I realized it was over I had my moment.” KindStatesMomentsSchoolFacesLostSituationHappenedCryHigh SchoolCamerasI RealizedChampionshipJuniors Author:Chris Bosh
“I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how to hold a camera, how to use a Dx3 menu. You can learn that in five minutes from somebody that doesn't even know anything. But what do you know if you haven't read anything - studied art and studied literature - what do you have to contribute?” IfsThinkingKnowsArtUseKidsSchoolFilmLiteratureKnow HowFiveMinutesHavensCamerasDo You KnowFive MinutesCurriculumMentoringMenusFilm School Author:Rob Nilsson
“I was flying planes before I was driving cars. I started gliding when I was fourteen, about when I started photographing. I was a geeky kid, and the camera was a way in high school for me to have some power. Flying was, too, I guess.” WayKidsSchoolCarHigh SchoolCamerasDrivingFlyingPlanesFourteenGlidingDriving Cars Author:Michael Light
“I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.” ThinkingSchoolFilmCamerasAssistantsFilm SchoolTrainees Author:Agnes Varda
“I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.” SchoolFilmLeftCompanyDirectorsCamerasIncludingScreensEquipmentTelephonesFilm DirectorsProjectors Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight at the camera; they're uncomfortable doing it. So, are [early movies] good? No.” PeopleLooksSchoolHouseParentHigh SchoolCamerasStudiosUncomfortableBedroomDreamland Author:John Waters
“I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.” WayWantHandsSchoolFilmMovingBitsWhitePiecesTeachingFieldsKeysDirectorsDirectLet MeCamerasDepthSizeFactorsLensesLightingFilm SchoolBits And PiecesDepth Of Field Author:Columbus Short
“I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.” WritingKindDoneWholeSchoolFilmUsedStuffTrainingShotsCamerasWhole LifeVideoGet UpVideo Cameras Author:Noah Baumbach
“My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.” SchoolPhotographyMy FriendsCamerasDowntown Author:William Eggleston
“As Mike Bickle said to me, there is a spiritual battle going on in the world, and he believes that in America marriage between a man and a woman will become illegal. He believes there will be a war. He believes it'll begin in schools and the Christian kids will rise up and slay the non-Christian kids. This was an on-camera interview!” MenWorldBelieveSaidWarKidsSchoolChristianAmericaSpiritualBattleCamerasInterviewsIllegalMike Author:Roger Ross Williams
“The camera course was a bit crap. But when I was in drama school, I wasn't interested. I wanted to be a stage actress. I was not interested in learning camera craft. But then you throw yourself in the deep end when you do get a job in front of the camera because you have absolutely no idea what you're doing, and it is a skill.” IdeasEndsWantedSchoolJobsCoursesBitsStageFrontsDramaSkillsCamerasActressesCraftsNo IdeaNot InterestedCrap Author:Phoebe Fox
“When I first started, I would go to Weist-Barron, and I studied with Rita Litton and ACTeen. For teenagers, it's a really, really great school. We did a lot of on-camera stuff, so you see yourself and what you do on camera.” FirstsSchoolStuffCamerasTeenagerReally GreatGreat Schools Author:Daniella Alonso
“One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing.” KindSchoolCultureTermMemoriesDesignDirectorsCamerasProductionsStudiosOld SchoolBrosWarner BrosProduction Design Author:Bruno Heller
“McLeod's Daughters was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera. I learned a lot of technical aspects that you take for granted once you know them, but you have to learn them somewhere, along the way. It was a bit of a training ground for me, working in front of the camera and also dealing with media.” KnowsWayFirstsSchoolJobsBitsTermRolesMediaFrontsDramaTrainingDaughterAspectCamerasGranted Author:Dustin Clare
“I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.” EyeSchoolFilmTakenPhotographyCamerasEnjoyedAngleWildlifeCamera Angles Author:Asa Butterfield
“I run my own film school, the Rogue Film School, and I do it over three and a half days, eight hours non-stop everyday; alone, single-handedly. But the difference is in the Rogue Film School I do have real human beings in front of me from all over the world, and of course there's this course as well, they can ask, talk about their problems and obstacles, finances, anything, you just name it. Whereas in the Masterclass, you are speaking to cameras.” WorldHumansWellsRealProblemRunningSchoolFilmThreeCoursesAsksNamesHoursDifferencesMy OwnHuman BeingsHalfFrontsCamerasEverydayObstaclesEightFinanceRoguesFilm SchoolReal HumanNon StopHalf Days Author:Werner Herzog
“Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.” YearsArtSchoolTeacherMembersHigh SchoolYears AgoMy FamilyCamerasFamily Members Author:Steven Sebring
“I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform the [Alexander] Glazunov Concerto in senior year with our school orchestra and the Jewish Grossman orchestra. I won a scholarship from the Goldman band to perform the [Paul] Creston Concerto. Which I never played with them, but they still gave me the money.” YearsStillsSchoolBandCamerasBrilliantSeniorOrchestraScholarshipPianistSenior Year Author:Jon Gordon
“McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.” FirstsSchoolJobsMotherTermRolesFrontsDramaDaughterCameras Author:Dustin Clare
“I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.” InspirationalWellsSchoolFunnyTogetherFilmCuttingEventsMy FriendsCamerasSavedVideoStaffGraduationSporting EventsVideo CamerasYearbookDarkroomNikon Author:Dianna Agron