The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
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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.
The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.
I just remember when I came out of film school - and I loved film school - that the industry was such a mystery. How to break in, and once you are in, how to make a film; that is such a large undertaking. There are thousands of pitfalls.
It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.
I'm a believer in film school.
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good 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.
It's the thing they don't teach you in film school - what happens after you finish your movie.
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.
It can take a long time for some people to find out how to ground themselves, and film sets are an odd atmosphere to do it in - especially if, like me, you finished school early.
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