Competition

Depending on your personal view, competition can provide fuel to become more or destructively consume one into comparison. As a filmmaker, you may be embroiled in competition, whether entering film festivals, vying for the highest box office numbers, or simply challenging yourself to actually complete that script and not let it collect dust in some drawer.

This quote comes from American businessman and politician Dwight Whitney Morrow.

Born in 1873, Morrow graduated from Amherst and later law school at Columbia. He made partner in 1913 at JP Morgan and Company. Morrow later died in 1931 as one of the richest men in New Jersey with an estate worth millions, despite the ‘29 stock crash just a few years prior.

Morrow says:

"The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition."