Speaker 01 is sharing personal experiences and insights regarding his education and its influence on his filmmaking career during what appears to be an interview or talk.
Just to be clear, I didn't go to film school 'cause I couldn't get into film school. My father told me when I was, when I was trying to decide what to do at university, my father knew I wanted to be a filmmaker but he advised me, he said, "Go and," as he referred to "get a real degree in a real subject, uh, so that you have that to fall back on, and then you could go to film school afterwards." Uh, which turned out not to be the case. But, uh, I studied English and, uh, because that was my, that was the academic subject that I was best at and, and inclined most towards. Um, but what I found as I studied, uh, at UCL and studied English there, is it, it greatly informed my filmmaking process, my writing process. I started to become more at ease with, uh, a lot of the literary concepts that underlie film criticism in particular.
Para ser claro, não fui à escola de cinema, pois não consegui entrar. Meu pai me disse, quando eu tentava decidir o que fazer na universidade, que, sabendo que eu queria ser cineasta, me aconselhou: "Vá e", como ele dizia, "tire um diploma de verdade numa disciplina de verdade, para ter como segunda opção, e depois você pode ir pra escola de cinema". O que não ocorreu. Mas, uh, eu estudei Inglês e, uh, porque essa era a disciplina acadêmica na qual eu era melhor e para a qual eu tinha mais inclinação. Mas o que eu descobri enquanto estudava Inglês na UCL foi que isso influenciou imensamente meu processo de filmagem e também meu processo de escrita. Comecei a me sentir mais à vontade com muitos dos conceitos literários que servem de base para a crítica de cinema, em particular.