Mike Birbiglia
Related I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyo... LESLEY MANVILLE BRIT MARLING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints... JOHN SEXTON I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I JAMES FRANCO In 1993, my first documentary was about the civil war in Algeria. That was in French and in Arabic. ... LUCA GUADAGNINO MARK HELPRIN I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled ... ANUSHKA SHARMA I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in schoo... DYLAN O'BRIEN I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff wri... HAMPTON SIDES What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first fi... JEREMY DAVIES DAVID O. RUSSELL KARAN JOHAR But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either i... PATRICK MARBER I've always wanted to be a coach; I never wanted to play basketball professionally. I happened to ge... RICK BRUNSON I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'T... DAVID HEYMAN NIVIN PAULY My mother wanted me to be a lawyer and I wanted to be an Actor. So I went to school, majored in thea... ARSENIO HALL EDGAR WRIGHT I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringwo... RONDA ROUSEY One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead char... JOE CORNISH CHRISTOPHER LEE When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwo... SAFFRON BURROWS My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f... VALORIE CURRY I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then... JANET EVANOVICH ERIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first sh... JASON REITMAN My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which forma... GUY RITCHIE For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made... MICHAEL GRAVES I could make thousands of dollars in Broadway musicals, but among the best experiences I had was doi... JOHN CULLUM ALDEN EHRENREICH BILL HADER I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wante... ELIZABETH REASER I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ... SCOTT ADSIT I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but... LUPITA NYONG'O MIKE BIRBIGLIA JOHN HURT LAKSHMI MITTAL When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ... OM PURI I'm the first person in my family to go to college, and I'm an immigrant. My aspirations com... GEISHA WILLIAMS MARK FEUERSTEIN I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just rec... DEBORAH MAILMAN I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So, I was... DULQUER SALMAAN VIRGINIA POSTREL In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in b... NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI LOIS LOWRY CORY BOOKER GAEL GARCIA BERNAL My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f... VALORIE CURRY Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey d... ERIC LIU ERIN RICHARDS I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro co... KURT BUSIEK AKKINENI NAGARJUNA I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York... GUILLERMO DIAZ Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do o... DUNCAN JONES MAGGIE STIEFVATER I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy - another good Dundee word - becaus... CHARLIE COX ORSON SCOTT CARD 'Fukrey' was a major turning point of my career because it was post this film that I started... ALI FAZAL JONAH HILL When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arri... LEOS CARAX BILL HADER BAHMAN GHOBADI That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ... TED DEMME I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major im... JEAN RENO BEN AFFLECK When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title r... DOUGLAS HODGE 'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It ... ESSIE DAVIS CRAIG GROESCHEL BETTY WHITE I remember my first scene with Alan Rickman, and I was anxious because he is a slight 'method... TOM FELTON WONG KAR-WAI VICTORIA AVEYARD CHARLIE ROWE BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD JOHN CUSACK COMMON I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest ... JASON FUCHS When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England. LESLEY MANVILLE GARTH NIX VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I m... TREVOR ST. JOHN I had seen 'Do the Right Thing' when I was at college, and it was incredibly inspiring as a ... JUSTIN CHADWICK In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakene... GASTON LACHAISE H. G. BISSINGER In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored ... JOE GARCIA 'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, midd... NOEL CLARKE DOUG LIMAN PARK CHAN-WOOK VICTORIA AVEYARD HARRISON FORD MIKE BIRBIGLIA I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, ... MAKO I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an en... ELEANOR MONDALE I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since. LOU HENRY HOOVER GEORGE ORWELL As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein... JOHNNY RAMONE BILL PAXTON STIPE MIOCIC
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Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and... 
When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a ... 
My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And... 
I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to... 
My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my... 
I was working as a software engineer in Infosys. I quit because I lost interest in it. I had a group... 
Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Ca... 
The most important film I made, in terms of its subject and the great responsibility I had as an act... 
I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me... 
I made short films in school. 
I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there. 
When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was ... 
How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throug... 
I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium ... 
Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private schoo... 
When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractic... 
I majored in English in college, so I read the classic dystopian novels like '1984' and '... 
There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't ... 
I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico... 
I do love doing stunts; I was in a film called 'The Quiet Ones,' which was quite a spooky fi... 
Films like 'Namo Venkateshaya' give immense satisfaction, happiness, and makes us feel bless... 
I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn&#... 
I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classe... 
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He g... 
I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an... 
I started as a child, in this PBS series 'Voyage of the Mimi,' which led to driving down to ... 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
I majored in English in college, ... but whenever I had doubts when I was writing, I'd always call N... 
I'm not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always ha... 
Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enoug... 
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My dad made a film called 'Willow' when he was a young filmmaker, which screened at the Cann... 
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Technically, my first acting job was in one of my videos for a song called 'Retrospect For Life,... 
I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a b... 
I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training ... 
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school pa... 
I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I ma... 
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Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. 
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If you try to do your best there is no failure. 
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