"hip-deep in"means?
I asked him excitedly, “What should I be doing now to insure that I get into your film school?” He said, “Don’t study film, whatever you do. We are hip-deep in film geeks who make films about other films. They make their films about the only reality they know. Go do something in life that is interesting and
will rub your brain with many people and ideas. Then come back.”
dose that means those "film geeks" are not welcomed in terms of his point of view ?