E-mail me anytime at ciao. Your enthusiasm and aspiration to express your creativity is good. That chasm needs to be filled with knowledge, experience, information, connections, more knowledge, more experience, etc. The great thing about being a filmmaker is that absolutely anything else you ever have done or do or will do can be applied to your art and craft. The point is that any education can be helpful to you as a filmmaker.
Film school can be wonderful and helpful, particularly in the theory aspect of the art and business.
So, it behooves you to have a few other skills you can fall back on when times are slow. When you're hot for that fifteen minutes of fame, they call you. The rest of the time, you have to call them, even if you're a high-powered producer, writer, director or star. I won't name names, but you'd be surprised at the very famous filmmakers who sometimes can't their calls returned. Nothing personal, it's just how the business works.