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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 3250712" data-attributes="member: 40522">This is so true that it hurts. When I was back in film school I landed a directing job during my senior year. Getting to actually direct is the holy grail of at least half the people in the film industry, alot of people were asking me how I got the job. So... The next Production Techniques class I brought in a few books. The Art of war and the Prince, which I cited as required reading for anyone in a leadership position. A Book of Five Rings, which I cited as required reading for anyone in a creative position. The Odyssey, the Iliad, the King James Bible, and the collected works of William Shakespeare; these I cited as being required to learn dramatic structure, characterization, and dialogue.The general reaction was truly one of the most frustrating things that I've ever seen in my life."Uh, those aren't movies. How would reading books help you know how to direct a movie?"Apparently, only two other people in the entire senior class read for fun. No one else had actually read an entire book since high school, and apparently, rarely even cracked the textbooks that their parents had spent several hundred dollars on every semster. That particularly made me want to crack someone right in the jaw since I couldn't afford the textbooks and had to bum around the student center an extra hour every day borrowing books to do the required reading.Perhaps unsurprisingly, no one there had seen a film older than Jaws or Scarface either. People in film school had never seen Citizen Kane or Battleship Potempkin, for example.</blockquote>

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