My opinion: You don't learn how to make films at film school. You learn how to make films by making films, as many as possible. For example - I was working on four features and a 3-hour musical script in the first half of the year 1999 alone ... my last year of high school.

Film school did help. It focused my creativity by giving me an unappreciative audience, forcing me to step my game up to professional level to avoid ridicule. Apart from that, take it or leave it.

You learn how to write screenplays by writing screenplays. You learn how to edit by editing. That's the way it goes ...