You guys are lucky to have haile its my dream to learne under his foot ... i never have a chance to learne movies i studied engineering bcus in Ethiopia its difficult to get in film school . I wish i will meet u one day haile !! I will do a great thing .
... if you really wanted to, you would. Here's an example of one of the greatest who went down the alley of doers, not the boulevard of dreamers: He was working as a clerk in a video store and not just wished he could or how great it would be if he was... He just buckled down, he wrote a script, he campaigned for it to get the money, he sent the script to the Sundance Institute Directors Lab, a director's programme, and it was good enough to get accepted, he went there, learned some of the basics of filmmaking, of directing from some of the greatest directors of that era, like Terry Gilliam, soaked it all up like a dry sponge in that three-week course, went back home to make his own first film with the knowledge he had gathered there. He was 27 years old. No fancy degrees in anything, no academic training, dropped out of school in the ninth grade even and started acting training, he was fifteen years young at the time, he didn't go to high school, didn't go to college. He never went to a directing school, he never went to a writing school ( _'whatever that would be'_ , he once mocked in a '97 Charlie Rose interview). But... he basically studied film and directing by watching films for more than a decade, in cinemas, not in front of a flat screen. Martial arts and B-movies in grindhouse cinemas. He watched everything from low budget films to medium-budget films to box office hits, up and down, comparing, analysing, learning, soaking up everything he could see in them, until the age when he wanted to write and direct his own feature, hoping to at least be better than the flat-out bad films he had seen up to that point, in the hopes of looking not so shoddy and amateurish too, but better and maybe even professional. Long story short: _'Reservoir Dogs'_ came into life in '91. It was Quentin Tarantino. The only two forces he actually formally studied in his life were acting and boxing, he once said. So, find a way! And bury your dream, because dreams are futile! They don't help anyone, they are for little kids, they are for nights while you sleep or for sissies, but not for a man who wants to live his life to its fullest. Only doers get things done, never dreamers. Maybe after you have buried the dream, you can finally focus on something, on what you might be actually good at: Engineering? But... If you decided otherwise, here's the only advice you need from Quentin Tarantino, passed on to him by Terry Gilliam: *_'It's not your job to create your vision. It's your job to have a vision, and then it's your job to hire talented artists who understand your vision, and you articulate it to THEM. Then THEY take your vision, and THEY create it.'_* (source: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nQkZO3YkXXU.html ) By his own account, he knew nothing about filmmaking, lighting, cinematography, set design, nothing, he had never been on a real film set before he actually shot his first movie and figured out, if he can actually do what he only KNEW about that he'd be doing it one day, becoming a film director. That's the only thing Tarantino truly knew about! And that's all YOU need to know. No film school in the world can teach you a vision. And don't confuse it with a dream! Dreams are dreamt by dreamers, not visionaries. That's Tarantino's path in a nutshell, how he became one of the most influential writer-directors and an overnight directing legend with his first feature film in 1992. He's been delivering brilliant films ever since. No film school teaches that either. Do you know why? Let George Bernard Shaw explain: _»*He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.* A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance. Activity is the only road to knowledge. Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.«_ (George Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy, 1903) Now, you again: what did you say you want? Certainly not making films. Here we say: _'Those who want to will find a way, those who don't will find excuses.'_ That's what I immediately recognised in your comment. Excuses. Plus it smacks a trifle bit of self-pity. Good luck. 🙏🏼
