What do you want to learn as a director?

To be a director, you should study drama, film and television director and film director.

If you don't go to a professional college, you need to have the "talent" of a screenwriter. Because if you don't enter a professional college, you won't have contacts and helpers, and you can only rely on yourself. Being a director begins with making short films. Students in the director department of a professional college can take the script of a screenwriter, but you can't, you can only rely on yourself. Photography can be mastered by learning, but not by making up stories. Learning can only be icing on the cake. You can't train a person who has no feelings for the story to be a screenwriter. Also, students in the director department of professional colleges can shoot minority works, but you can't. You must shoot works with stories that can attract a large audience (juggling and spitting are not allowed), because only in this way can you attract the attention of film and television companies. So the ability of a screenwriter is very important to you. From my observation, it may be the only way for amateurs to be film directors to "make works that attract a large audience and have stories". In short, if you have creative ability, you will have an opportunity, and if you don't, you will die.