Everyone's standing in line.
To meet with investors.
To get an agent.
To sell a screenplay.
Most people never get to the front. The people who do got pulled out – by nepotism, chance, a returned favor, timing.
Find a way to skip whatever line you're in, or risk dying in it.
I wish success was about being a great artist, writer, painter, engineer.
But it's just as much about who you know, and who knows you.
Too many creatives focus on honing their craft, and not enough on how they can meet the people who will change their trajectory with one intro.
Starving artists care about product.
Well-fed artists care about distribution.
Taylor Swift was a phenomenal artist. But her dad was also a shareholder in the music label that signed her.
You need both.
To me, privilege isn't about "you don't deserve that."
It's about: "everyone else does too."
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