Tom Cruise has some key advice for the next wave of actors. As one of the biggest movie stars in the world, he didn’t attend film school or have a technically trained background. Instead, Cruise told the audience on Monday while receiving the British Film Institute Fellowship honor that he learned his skills by watching movies.

Tom Cruise, while receiving a British Film Institute Fellowship, has called on aspiring actors to immerse themselves in the technical aspects of filmmaking, criticising film schools for not doing enough to teach production tools and technology.