That's pretty much valid for anything in life. What's University or School? Just people who (hopefully) had more time to gain experience, and they're passing it to you. Of course, when we're talking about thing like Medicine, it's better to learn from people with experience, so you don't learn by failing and trying again (we don't want people dying in the hospitals). But with filmmaking, it's learn by doing and doing and doing.

Too bad he didn’t learn sound better. Dude is trash at volume. Can’t hear anything in tenant. And the original Bane sound was so bad… he had to dub over everything they shot.

@@smlambert2 You do know he's not the guy in charge of recording and mixing the sound, right?

@@joaocorreiamedia correct, however he is the Director of the whole movie. Tenant was so bad almost unwatchable due to the sound. He is responsible for the whole movie.

@@smlambert2 That we can agree with. But the biggest problem from Tenet wasn't the sound, was the shitty-ass story.

James Cameron, Spielberg never graduated till later

His video store was his film school.

"Limits breed creativity."

@@8eight104 @8eight104 I like that adage; who coined it?

You can make it happen. Never stop learning and never stop being curious. But always remember to take what you have leaned and apply in a way that satisfies your desires as a filmmaker

prib bcs she is blonde

Yeah, his talent to bore me to death with his bullshit.

A talent that is very raw but waiting for that bigger budget to fulfill that untapped potential.

Well spotted, I love the synchronicity or meaningful coincidence. :) Ty for bringing that detail to my attention.

The irony of that logo was not lost when he made the DKT : don’t think he knew what was in his (& our) future 😃👏❤️

Thank you very very much

Take notes, Hollywood.

@@TheUnintentionalWildCard only so few people over in that archaic veil even commit to it. Otherwise, they wasted their English skills…

you're right little buddy 🤗

More like garbage

You gotta start somewhere though. How can one discover which talents they possess and should develop without exploring their interests?

Skill over Will. Lots want it.

I think film school can give you connections, am I right?

Honestly, if you have an amazing vision people won’t care if they have to work for free. They’ll ask you to work with them. This doesn’t apply to professional artists but def applies to upstarts.

@@imtotallyseriously also dont go asking for free work with experienced actos, look for the students, they will also want to gain experience, its a win win for both of you.

this idea is nice but doesn't work, don't give tips that are idealistic, give practical advice. actors can be paid later if profits are made or actors and regisseur and other workers form a cooperative etc. on the other some actors just want to play in a movie and take no money (don't be so patronizing like you know everything about people and their motives) what i really dislike about advice like yours is, it sounds like "be rich", you can only make projects if you money etc. ignorant capitalistic mindset.

Or just tell them before hand that you want to make a movie, this is everything you need to know about the story and your character and what i want from you BUT I won't be able to pay you anything. So if you wanna come, do it for the art and belief in my script. Anurag Kashyap, an Indian director said these things when he wanted to make his 1st big movie and gathered some of the brilliant theatre actors, musicians, even some veterans and colleague from his previous flop films, all for free and made a great cult classic movie- GULAAL.

@@imtotallyseriously Wes Anderson is a good example. never asked anyone to work for 'free' per say, but effectively 'free' by modern standards. Enthusiastic artists wanna work with one another; creative minds attract one another, and making art for art's sake will always be worthwhile.

God? Naah.

If you're as good as Nolan, then yeah. Also he has an English degree - works great for story and world building. It's not like he was an uneducated bum off the street.

@@Dayvit78 yeah but still you don’t need to be good as nolan to be a well acclaimed director.

@@Dayvit78degrees aren’t the end all be all. You can educate yourself outside of school.

You know what my daddy would think if I told him I went to film school?! It would kill him!!

Stop. He is the outlier. There was this thing years back where the Beatles couldnt read music. No. They just made girls cry, wrote great material, we’re on the cutting edge of the rock era and were all cute. You need to deal with the reality of actual possibilities. Millions of amateur filmmakers will never accomplish a billionth of the success of Nolan. Find a more realistic example, please.

Why would a massive decrease in budget make a film better?

@@davidhrzenjak because it forces filmmakers and writers to get creative

@@davidhrzenjak And we would get more GOOD stories. My suggestion is if someone have an original and groundbreaking, EPIC idea / script, it should have been made from a low budget, instead of putting it in the drawer because lack of money. If the story is good, and it is REALLY good, it is good in B&W and with a budget like Following... Imagine TENET (but you can imagine Inception too, or The Prestige (maybe without costumes and period sets, in present time, with modern tricks!!! - even better!!!!)... (SPOILERS) 1. Opera house, hostage situation - less s.w.a.t., less terrorist, empty hall, just one hostage... doable from no budget... 2. Railway station, old trains... every city has trainstation... guerilla... doable form no budget... 3. Boat / ship scene.. rather a hospital scene... with ship on sea cut scene... doable.. maybe dont need ship, just some shot on the sea... Huge wind-powerplants... every country has some... (they haven't be on the ocean / sea) doable... 4. Mumbai / London / Oslo / Tallin / city / restaurant / university / interior scenes... doable with some guerilla tricks, not so important to be in another country (if Tenet would be set only in a city, it would be just as good!) 5. Amalfi coast - interchangeable with local lake / seashore / high mountain buildings, not even necessary to be a luxurious place, not even abroad 6. Huge yacht - interchangeable with some villa or just some headquarters, OR you can rent a catamaran / motoryacht around 4000EUR / week (in Europe) and there is the yacht. 7. Ok, Magne Viking is out, haha :D 8. Reversed highway chase - it would be a headache, BUT if you rewrite that sequence, it can be made on a rentable airfield with 2-3 cars... here in Hungary there are more airfield, that they rent for car-shows, etc. Need some trick, but doable... Firetruck and other huge vehicles smashing into the van is not necessary, it can be overwritten to just as good effect with a simpler setup 9. Boeing 747 is out :) But what if, instead of the Boeing smashing into the building, there would be some reversed happening, just like at the opera... and there we got the excitement... not just a big smash can be exciting... 10. reversed fighting scenes, reversed movements, etc... ok, its hard to plan and coreograph, but there are ways to do it, it is the very hard part of the production, but hey... we are talking about a Nolan concept, it wont't be a walk in the park :) 11. big war scene - totally unimportant, if 2-2 soldiers (2 red, 2 blue) go in and make things happen (more like in a Splinter Cell style, rather then a war style), equally satisfying... 12. and that's all... my personal opinion, that TENET is a wasted opportunity, because I would write MORE reversed scenes and more mind-fuck effects from reversed happenings, maybe they could be integrated into the low-budget version for more excitement factor... Ok, it would be more than $6000, but it can be made from around $20.000-30.000... And this would be a very good movie, not just another so-so indie flick. And it would be a Nolan-level story / movie... And imagine that someone would write a new EPIC Nolan-level movie on his/her own with a low budget in mind, where everything is spot on! And that's what I talked about!

@@pauldeak3265 I think a good movie lies somwere in between what you described and what we got from Nolan. I do like when seemingly less is at stake but you are more conected with the characters if that makes sense.

@@davidhrzenjak You are right and I agree!!!!

Invest 98% of your time and money in learning what a story is, the structure of stories, what makes a good story, character development, story and character arcs etc... Schindler's list would still be a great film even shot on an iPhone. The Godfather, Psycho, Stagecoach all would still be great films shot on a basic DLSR in 1080. The equipment can help express the story the story is always king even over the equipment. I'm learning this lesson the hard and expensive way.

Yeah, and that is 11500$ in todays money… But then again, you can start out today without buying and developing filmstock, so you can have a mere shoe-stringy budget because of digital…

You just can't, no matter how much bs these people throw at us but unfortunately the reality is one and only: Filmmaking ain't for the poor :/

So you are 80 years old now?

Film school is evil and filled with bitter failures who are trying to destroy the medium because they were too cowardly to realize their own films.

The fact is that he did it on purpose I was watching Tenet the other day and I was like why the fuck would you do that. God knows what he was thinking, completely ruined the theater experience because of the lack of subtitles in theaters.

It is John Nolan. He also appeared in Batman Begins :-)

Actually I think that’s from tenet.