Still, there were many more turned away, so the financial risks should not be ignored. As in other performing artforms, security and retirement plans are not the norm. Since none of us knows what we don't know, school is key, eventually becoming the school of experience. In elementary and secondary school, the best preparation courses are literally all of them. As a filmmaker, you will draw upon knowledge of English to express ideas and stories.
Visualization implies appreciating art.
Start making videos as an amateur now to see how you like it - and perhaps to have something to show to get into film school. Film is so interdisciplinary in its needs for human resources that almost anything goes toward an associates or baccalaureate degree. USC, NYU, Columbia, and Syracuse are on my short list - but the list is long. But architects have become designers and of course theater majors are actors and stage technicians. Dancers, musicians, accountants, lawyers, gymnasts, and nearly all other aptitudes and skills all find roles on the filmmaker's crew from time to time.