Unless your parents or best friend went to school with ...well, fill in the blank for today’s hottest producer, director, or casting agent, ...you will probably need more than luck to launch a career in filmmaking.
True, so much of getting a job in any field is who you know. Minus being in tight with a Hollywood powerhouse, it takes nurturing the right relationships and building up a body of work to even begin getting your foot in the door. It takes time and discipline to shoot and edit a film, submit to festivals, get critics to review it, have a screening, look for distributors or build a website and sell it yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote might apply to this.
Emerson was born in the sign of Gemini in 1803 to the son of a Unitarian minister and his wife.
Faced with mortality at an early age, Emerson lost his father and three siblings while in his childhood.
His first wife, Ellen, later died at the age of 20, just two years into the young couples’ marriage.
Although Emerson married twice, this did not stop him from writing erotic poems about a male student with whom he went to college.
Emerson is mostly remembered for his essays and speeches on the subject of Transcendentalism. A core theory of this belief is that spirituality be experienced through intuition rather than other methods.
Emerson leaves us with:
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. “
