Has no degree from a film school. In September 2006 Nemes started to study film directing in a post-graduate program at New York University's 'Tisch School of the Arts', but quit after less than a year because he "didn't like it". Nemes further complained in an interview that the education there was too "conventional". Other famous drop-outs from NYU's 'Tisch School' include the later Academy Award winner
Steve McQueen, who quit after only one semester for similar reasons, and director
Paul Thomas Anderson, who famously quit after only two days.
