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Originally Posted by RT Wolf  However, the Cinema Studies course at University of Toronto is more or less only theory (watch movies, write essays and so on). So, not only do you have to enjoy doing something (and that includes the months of grueling work and not just the final product), you have to be willing to endure (or enjoy) the rigors of academia, including useless essays and assignments, bad professors, people with aims totally different from yours, senseless beaurocracy, etc. Yay, fun! I'm just complaining at this point. Toodles. |
USC film school rejected spielberg, didn't they? Last year, i was at a film ffestival with 5 acadmeny award nominated directors - (crash, capote, totsi, paradise now, and one more i forget) someone asked 'what film schools did you go to" they all looked at each other and shrugged...'none' 'i took one course on how to operate a camera' and that sort of thing
However, let me offer on caveat - dropping out, failing, quitting or opting to avoid some 'conformity' like going to college does not is not and will never be a guarantee of success of even a sign - I think most people who drop out become drifters the case of the sucesses is they dropped out or didn't go because they were so driven by what they were doing that the degree got in the way...