Warren Smith

Yeah, and it's weird, too, because these colleges, like Emerson offers these professional study courses that anyone can take.

You don't have to be a student at Emerson, and they offer them online, so it's not taking up physical real estate.

And the teachers can run them from their houses, and there's no cap on how many they can run.

So I wonder...

So other colleges must be doing this.

And I wonder how many programs do they have running like this?

It's just a cash cow for them because the teacher doesn't get the income.

They just get a flat fee.

And it doesn't cost that much to take.

It might cost like $400, $500 for a five-week session.

There is something to be said for that, though, because like you just said, you would probably prefer to do something like that, targeting what you need to learn versus $60,000 a year programs.

I've got a book coming out in August.

No, it's called A Mind of Your Own, Unlocking the Power of Critical Thinking.

And it's really the lessons that have

help that it's how i do what i do for lack of a better way to express it but the lessons that have been most impactful for me even from what i've learned about filmmaking and the laws of narrative and in debate the idea is that we're constantly in these verbal chess games every day whether you realize it or not in applying game theory to that things get really interesting and

working with actors, I've learned the importance of nonverbal communication and how acting is really not about the words.

The script is, they're just the tools that we use, the boat floating on the surface, good actors.

It's everything beyond the words that differentiate good actors.

And that's something that applies to every day.

And learning the patterns and anticipating the next move.