Laszlo Nemes hated 'NYU Tisch School of the Arts' and quit...

Like Paul Thomas Anderson, Steve McQueen or Bennett Miller he hated NYU's Tisch School of the Arts:

DK: Did you study film?

Nemes: I studied International Relations and Political Science in Paris where I grew up. I wanted to go to film school but couldn’t, I took some classes in film theory at university and I learnt by myself, I read a lot and watched films. Then I went back to Hungary and worked as an assistant director, then I went to film school in New York but I quit before finishing.

DK: Why?

Nemes: I did not like it.

DK: Too conventional?

Nemes: Yes, it’s a long story but film school was not my cup of tea. Then I’d already started making short films and continued doing that and developing them into features.

DK: How many short films have you made?

Nemes: Three. Interestingly, none of them were accepted in the shorts competition in Sarajevo.

http://independent-magazine.org/2015/10/nyff-15-laszlo-nemes/

Hungary’s Laszlo Nemes stunned Cannes auds with his visceral first-person Auschwitz odyssey “Son of Saul,” (pictured) walking away with the fest’s Grand Jury Prize. Nemes, who studied political science in France — but quit film school in New York after a year — was undaunted by the hefty subject: “Even if it was ambitious, I felt the scope of it was something I could control. I wanted to immerse the viewer in an experience rather than construct an intellectual discourse or use the Holocaust for its dramatic value.”

http://variety.com/2015/film/awards/foreign-language-oscar-directors-pique-hollywoods-interest-1201638777/#comment-list-wrapper