I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.