Originally posted by Maijodojo:
So I had a meeting with the film teacher at my university today to discuss the film industry, film school, etc. She said that if you want to be a successful director in the U.S. (as in hollywood type success) you pretty much have to go to USC, UCLA, NYU, or AFI. Is there truth to that? Is it not possible for someone to go to a place like FSU or UT-Austin and end up being successful?
No, there is no truth to that. Robert Rodriguez went to UT Austin, Spielberg went to CSU Long Beach, Woody Allen was expelled from NYU, Quentin Tarantino watched a tonne of movies while working at a video store before writing Reservoir Dogs, and the list goes on. Obviously there are numerous directors (Coppola, Lucas, Zemeckis etc.) that were successful after attending the top tier film school but its not any guarantee. Personally I believe to stand any chance of "making it" you have to work every angle, and not solely rely on the institutions to create a career for you. If it's what you absolutely want to do, then don't let some teacher's opinion get in your way, just put everything you have into it, go to FSU if that's what you want and go be a filmmaker .
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