In an industry about networking, it can be difficult to keep your mouth closed. According to the filmmaker Justin SimienLearning that skill can mean the difference between A long career And one that fizzles out quickly.
Speak Direct-to-Camera for IndieWire Film FramtimeS brand new video series ”What no one tells you“The author/director behind “Dear White People” and the independent Spirit-award-winning Docu series “Hollywood Black” Offered valuable advice on how to communicate with industry people. He even went as far as ignoring his own guidance by letting the next generation narrator know that the truth can be a very dangerous practice.
“Saying the truth in Hollywood will get you in trouble”
Fantasy is often an important ingredient for meeting, but as Simia said it also has an important place in the interpersonal relationships that make an artist’s work possible.
“There are many egos in Hollywood and they are very easily dilapidated,” Simien said. “And when you start telling people what it was like to work with so and so and you are honest about it, so and so tends not so, and they tend to tell others so and sos on similar, private, I don’t know, stylish-rich people-overworks not to work with you.”
Nobody wants to work with toxic personalities, but it is probably inevitable. Instead of entering that toxicity or even answering it, Simia said, it is important not to take anything too personal.
“You have to listen to the note behind the note, which will serve you well in all careers in Hollywood, but you want to listen to the esoteric significance behind what the person tells you,” Simia said. “There is very little simple feedback or information that I think someone should really take to nominal value.”
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