I didn`t go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.
I didn`t get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they`d given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake.
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.