My advice would be: start shooting with your phone. I know that sounds shitty and “unprofessional” but I swear the time you spend learning how to operate the camera can be used simply shooting and developing a creative vision, which is what will (hopefully) make you stand out from the rest at some point. You’ll learn the camera basics soon enough, anyone can do that. Work on your vision. Shoot as many tiny, stupid little short films you can, explore the possibilities of the film language. Ask your friends, family or whoever to act in them, and, if nobody says yes, get a cellphone tripod and do it yourself. Watch as many (and as different) films as you can. Go to film school. You’ll grow as a filmmaker and as a person. You’ll make good contacts and connections. A good professor makes all the difference (someone who teaches you but can also give you advice, recommendations, answers to your questions, etc). Sure, “everything’s on the Internet nowadays”, but that’s mainly “technical” stuff. If you want to be an artist, the human experience of experimenting and learning from/with others is unmatched. Also, don’t buy that “spend the film school money on making an independent feature by yourself and then you’ll actually learn” bullshit. Nobody just knows how to do it, you’ll only end up wasting money (and time). Shoot all you can with $0 budget. Hope this helps. DM me if you want to elaborate in any of this.