>>3842497Not at all comparable. I figured someone would bring up guys like Cameron, Herzog, hell even Tarantino etc but these are guys who took shit jobs just to fill their stomachs and scrape together a tiny bit of cash so they could start making films in their teens/early 20s. They were 100% focused on filmmaking since their youth, they just had to pay rent for a couple of years.
>>3832824 specified "good jobs," which I assume means someone who studies something other than film and then does a proper career until they hit their 30s/40s and they have enough money to finance their dream short film. Virtually all of these guys fail. You can find loads of these boomers (doctors, lawyers, accountants, finance guys etc. I've met people like this in all these fields) in any expensive directing workshop. None of them ever do shit other than waste their money.
>>3842406Name someone (under 50). The closest example I can think of is Ava Duvernay and she attended UCLA (although not the film school) and worked in the LA media industry so she was adjacent to filmmaking for years.
>>3842338Becoming a doctor is obviously hard but there's a clearly defined path. Studying, test-taking, doing long hours of medical work is not a "hustle", it's just hard work. If regular doctors had to hit people up on Instagram to try to land their next heart surgery gig or do a bunch of random, unsanctioned free operations to build up a surgery portfolio they would be "hustlers." Anything done in the context of school or a formal workplace is by definition not a hustle.
