This is the first question you have to ask yourself. What's your purpose? Art? Money? Beauty? Or do you want to pursue something else?
The filth and greed of the film and television industry are obvious to all, both in China and Hollywood. The godfather mentioned the disgusting state of Hollywood in his novel. Therefore, we should set a goal for ourselves and work hard for it all our lives.
The basic abilities that a director needs are: knowing all aspects of film and television production, having certain literary and artistic accomplishment, being well-off or noble-minded.
Let's start with the last point. A person with a bad moral character but a good family can also be a director, only in name. If the family is not well-off and noble, it is absolutely impossible to be a director I can assure you. In fact, most directors are still famous families, and the good family environment and cultural education as children are also one of the reasons for their success. I inserted this sentence here. If you see this sentence, at least in my opinion, you are still a very serious person. Then please work hard. You should be more serious and work harder than others. Other arts: know all the suggestions and remember only the most classic things. We don't have much time, so we remember the most vulgar ones. (The most vulgar is the content of related industries, which is new knowledge for us)
Watching movies: Needless to say, this is the most important thing. Watch all kinds of movies and watch more of your favorite movies. In addition, we should repeatedly study the classic works in the past film history, and it doesn't matter if we don't like them. It is necessary to look at other people's film reviews and teaching materials in order to truly integrate. Basically, you have to watch the most classic movies, otherwise you are a movie lover at best, not even an enthusiast. In this respect, China's electric donkeys are endowed with unique resources, so we should work hard if the law allows.
If you think old movies are not easy to choose, you can also watch them slowly from high to low according to imdb score. It is very convenient to sort the electric donkeys directly by imdb score.