My brother thinks he can be a filmmaker without ever reading

let reality tell him

He's correct, but I would point out that script writers read a fuckton and if we wants to truly understand every part of filmmaking he should read.

Bela Tarr and Laszlo Krasznahorkai power duo.

tarantino kinda did this doe

>>9560683
Exactly who I thought about when I read OP. If anything Tarantino lack of culture outside of what has been recorded on film plays into his appeal.

>>9560781
come on now, django was a total retelling of homer

>>9560683
>>9560781
He read screenplays too though (I assume that since I read some of his screenplays, he does know the format)

>>9560683
His biggest influence is elmore leonard, a NOVELIST.

>>9560633

I lived with someone who planned to go to film school but read maybe half a non-fiction book after high school. He had zero ideas or motivation to do anything. Meanwhile I have zero resources available to begin shooting my modern retelling of a Russian short story.

>>9560816
not only that, he read books while writing 2 screenplays

>>9560633
let him show you a Quentin Tarantino movie.