Terry Gilliam School of Film: 10 Lessons for Directors

1. Growing up is for losers.
2. Film school is for fools.
3. Auteurism is out. Fil-teurism is in.
4. Put your ideas in a drawer. Take them out as needed.
5. All you’ve really got in life is story.
6. Command the audience with your lens.
7. Nothing can defeat a director who is one with his actors.
8. Surround yourself with improvisers.
9. Directing is not for the faint-of-heart. Or the sane.
10. Be an enlightened despot.

• Bonus Lesson: And whatever you do, don’t ever work with the Weinsteins.