You know what I think the most best advice that I could give for young filmmakers is just to get out and start making films.

These days it's so easy to do so everybody's got an iPhone - please just make sure that you film horizontally and not in portrait :) But just going out and shooting ANYTHING that has motion and is of some interest and then editing films is the most important thing.

Editing is one of the most amazing processes in filmmaking and is crucial, crucial, crucial to anyone wanting to be a filmmaker, So go out, shoot something, come back in, edit it together. Make sure there's wide shots, cutaways reaction shots, etc.

Once you watch your edit (start on I-Movie if you have to!) you go back and you shoot something again. So it all comes down to get out and shoot something. Edit it, show your friends and post it. It won't be perfect the first 100 times - but you build experience and get better.

I held myself back for years waiting for the right moment - I wish someone had just told me "just get a story and go shoot it!"