| Kevin Smith, the director most renowned for the | | | | art, it truly is also a organization. And that in |
| indie film Clerks, has often said that there's no such | | | | enterprise, it really is never a great plan to burn |
| thing as a list of the best film schools. Simply because | | | | bridges. Any individual you meet, any contact you |
| film schools can not really teach you the way to be a | | | | make, is potentially someone who can, possibly now |
| beneficial director; you possibly have it, or you do | | | | or down the road, support you realize your dream of |
| not. | | | | becoming a professional filmmaker. The best film |
| I feel there's an element of truth to this. Directing is | | | | schools tend not to in fact teach classes in |
| definitely an art, and should you will not have an | | | | networking; the best film schools are networks. In |
| innate talent for it, then you won't be any beneficial | | | | case you happen to have into a USC or a UCLA or |
| at that. The best film schools and education are | | | | an NYU, then you've the opportunity to meet |
| unable to change it. It is no several than painting or | | | | become familiar with a generation of folks who will |
| sculpting; in case you can not do it, you can not do it. | | | | be running the film industry inside the decades to |
| Nevertheless, what the best film schools can do is | | | | come. |
| teach the best way to take whatever latent talent | | | | Then there's imparting an understanding of film itself. |
| you may perhaps possess and apply it to the best of | | | | Quite a few film schools will not need film criticism |
| your capability. Needless to say this isn't a guarantee | | | | cinema studies classes, but they ought to. Mainly |
| - even the University of Southern California, the | | | | because if the idea of making a film is to possibly |
| University of California at Los Angeles, and New York | | | | capture or subvert a given medium (and that's what |
| University, largely considered the three best film | | | | all films intend, it is possibly one or the other), then it |
| schools in America cannot guarantee that you'll be a | | | | really is essential to realize all aspects of that medium. |
| rich and successful filmmaker. But what they can do | | | | Consider of it like Picasso - he didn't just splash |
| is give you the tools to obtain there. | | | | random points on the canvas from the time he was |
| What are the tools that film schools must impart | | | | a kid. He instead mastered and understood the |
| upon their students? The first is definitely an | | | | methods of pass masters, then went in his own |
| understanding that, whilst film direction is definitely an | | | | direction (which in his case was largely subversion). |