London, May 13 -- Actor Tom Cruise urged the actors to learn about the craft of filmmaking while receiving a British Film Institute fellowship at the annual BFI Chair's Dinner in London on Monday.

According to Variety, the A-list actor bemoaned film schools for failing to teach production tools and filmmaking technology to aspiring actors.

He believes that actors must know about "lighting" and "camera blocking" to become good performers.

"It is important to understand the tools around you. There is tech. It is like understanding the stage as an actor, but for a lot of artists it is not taught in film school: how to understand the lens and what it can do, and why there is eye movement and recognise the effect it has," said Tom Cruise as...