The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.
I think the thing about film is, as it gets proved by a lot of young filmmakers now, that the medium will just go on reinventing itself, and so you just hope to be a part of that and not a part of some kind of endless regurgitation or 'Here I am doing what you know I do' kind of thing.
I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.
What I do on film is part of my profession.
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