Advice that I've always felt was sound came from the book I believe called Film School Confidential-film school should be good for two things: a great short film and a great feature length screenplay which is to say you don't really have to attend film school.
I'm a 28-year old aspiring filmmaker moonlighting as a part-time newborn hospital photographer. I dropped out of the Savannah College of Art and Design film school-shout out to Jimmy Fallon for recently plugging the school by choosing a "SCAD" student for his Late Night show internship contest...