Going to film school taught me how much I already knew, and that the best way to learn about film is being on the set with professionals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.
I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.
I've had plenty of lessons about film acting and theatre acting.
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.
I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
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.'
Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.
Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.