“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.” YearsFilmActorsFatherLeftCompanySixSevenUniversityReliefWakingDocumentariesSeven YearsDocumentary Films Author:Sam Neill
“I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.” WantedSchoolFilmCoursesCommunityClassStudyCollegeTerribleUniversityGoing AwayAuditionsCommunity College Author:Dylan O'Brien
“I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.” BigsTodayFilmYoungNextActorsRealizingDutyIndustryDirectorsLateApproachHollywoodSilentUniversityCinemaVagueYoung ActorsHollywood FilmsSilent Films Author:Gaspard Ulliel
“At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and not considered a serious form of expression. You had to make a film about an issue.” WayFilmFormClassIssuesComedySeriousExpressionUniversityTemples Author:Tim Heidecker
“I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.” YearsPhilosophyFilmStudySawsRocksEconomicsUniversityFantasticAustralianPicnicsRetrospectiveAustralian FilmsGallipoliStudying Economics Author:Deborah Kara Unger