Adam F. Goldberg
Adam F. Goldberg

I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom's whole world was caving in.

Adam Shankman
Adam Shankman

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor

It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to film school, and tried to be like my heroes, like, Spike Lee and Hal Hartly.

Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor

My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were going to do: personal movies based in, and about, New York. My heroes were all participating in an economic model that was collapsing as I was finishing film school.

Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

Alex Garland
Alex Garland

I didn't go to film school.

Alexa Vega
Alexa Vega

I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.

Alexis Bledel
Alexis Bledel

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Allison Schroeder
Allison Schroeder

When I switched to screenplays - 'cause I had done musicals and plays - the first assignment in film school was, you have to write a silent film. And it's tremendously helpful to learn how to do that because dialogue can be a crutch. If you can master a silent film, you're golden.

Amandla Stenberg
Amandla Stenberg

I knew when I was about 14 that I wanted to be a director and that I wanted to go to NYU for film school.