It would be better to make a film

Film director extraordinaire Werner Herzog famously said: “I felt it would be better to make a film than go to film school.”

Herzog knows that the best learning is by doing the work. Because it’s all theory and “could” and “would” until you actually do the work.

I feel like today is a great day to stop overthinking and start learning – by simply doing the work.

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