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  • Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

    Hello fellow Done Deal pro members. I am ecstatic to have found this community and thrilled to be making my first post. Although I'm not enthused as to the subject matter I'm posting about.

    I want to ask the fellow forum members a serious question in reference to the business in general. I posted this same question on moderator Emily Blake's blog this morning. There I gave a brief summation of my problem, but here I feel like I can elaborate more on the situation, that the question stems from.

    Here it is:

    This morning my mother said to me these words, "writing films, doing this film thing, trying to do any business, trying to get some big hit was all a fantasy. I'm living in a fantasy world." Then she implied I need to wake up and give up fantasies altogether.

    Now this hurt me to my core. Below are the reasons why it did:
    • For 11 years out of my parents 17 year marriage my stepfather due to ignorance, addictions to cigarettes, alcohol, porn and other drugs, beat me on a weekly basis. Controlling and strict, if I didnt go to bed at 5pm, leave the house so he can get his "free time" or do whatever he said without question, he beat me for it. (Note: I was about 11 when he started, 130lbs while he was 300lbs. I have numerous marks around my body if pictures are needed, hopefully no one would ask me to show em though.) He tried to beat my brother, but I wouldn't allow it, since my little brother has Autism, so I got double servings occasionally. I have kept this haunting secret to myself to preserve the family unit as my mother requested, so I never called the cops or anything, I lived like everything was A OK.
    • At 21 years of age, after one huge fight we had, the cops were called on me and I was homeless for the next five months. I lived at a friends house on DeBalk Avenue in Brooklyn until my friend threw me out and I lived on benches around the city and the school I was going to at the time.
    • I got desperate and my mom asked me to come back home so they can get a new apartment, in a great neighborhood that needed 4 people to live in it for my family to have it. So I came back home. Now at this new place it is rent controlled, so the more money we make the more money we pay. I have quit 3 jobs so the rent doesn't go up so my family can afford to live there. (Note: If I lost a job, the rent would remain the same for a year due to the contract they signed, so to avoid that, my mom asked me to quit them beforehand, and I obliged for the preservation of the family unit).
    • I helped pay internet and phone bills. Sometimes my phone was the only one working in the house so I let my family use it.
    • I remember at least 3 times I paid $500-$600 dollars towards the $1000+ rent for my family.
    Now this is is only a fraction of the stuff I have gone through in my life. I dont want to post all my family business out there. This is to give you an idea of the polite hell I'm living in right now.

    I am not a lazy person either.
    • I have worked in New York Presbyterian Hospital as a Nutrition Assistant right out of high school and received a Service Excellence Award and Falcon Award after 10 months of working there. (Note: I was on a probationary period for 6 out of those 10 months.)
    • Worked at the colleges I attended as an assistant in the film, fashion and business departments.
    • At Westchester Community College, I worked as an IT Help Desk Tech, helping teachers in providing education through the technology we had; and helped over 1,000 students attain there Associates Degree.
    • I worked in Kohls retail toy department helping parents decide what to get for their kids, as those kids, ravaged the very area I spent 6 hours building/cleaning. So I'm no stranger to chaos or customer service.
    • For 5 months I worked at Lenscrafters making prescription glasses. What takes the average worker to learn in 4-6 months, I learned in one month. I started Dec 26 2010 and by Jan 21 2011 I was doing 80 percent of the lense-making process. I went from 4 hours to 12 hour days. Sometimes I had to walk 5 miles to work adn back home, if I didn't have enough money after I paid some student loan or contributed to the household.
    • With the money I managed to save I invested it in some student loans and started a retail business online. For months I studied, inquired interviews, bought merchandise, filed for a tax I.D., all kinds of things to set something up for the long term.

    When I had a sliver of time to myself I participated in the Arts.


    Here is a short film called 'Busboys' submitted to Steven Spielberg's On The Lot reality show, Vine Film Festival, and countless others. I play a soldier in the trenches.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2NO-7PUhTg&feature=plcp


    'Running Scared', a comedy where I play a husband terrified of an innocent creature. This short won Best Film at the colleges' film festival and was awarded 750 bucks.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HieqF0vkb1w&feature=plcp


    'We Run the Web' is a remix music video to Jayz's 'Run This Town'. I wrote, performed, edited it thru trial an error, with my own green screen and a broken video camera in 5 days, in my bedroom.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P-S...0&feature=plcp



    Here is my YouTube channel consisting of 5 other short films, where I played a drug addict executive, thugs, and a crazed drug induced criminal.


    https://www.youtube.com/user/AstanBi...V?feature=mhee



    I am showing all of this not to brag or boast for these projects are years old, but to illustrate I am a hard worker. I'm not begging for handouts or jigging with a cup for change. Im not a lazy person, siphoning my parents for money. I do what I gotta do to get to where I want to go and willing to work with whomever who wants to come with me to the best of my ability.


    Right now I'm looking for a job, to add on to my new, fledging, retail business and try to get rid of these student loans in 6 months to a year. In the mean time I am working on a sci-fi action epic screenplay to be submitted to Amazon Studios, Circle of Confusion in Queens or to New York managers in general.



    I would like anyone willing, to ask themselves 'how would you feel if you have done or suffered all I have stated above for your family and someone you love, says your dreams are fantasy and you need to wake up?'


    How would your respond to that? Personally I have been pissed all day and feel like walking out the door as I type this. I feel like because I'm not the breadwinner, I don't mean much in my family, well at least my word is as good as monopoly dough.



    Do you think I'm overreacting? Think I'm an @$$hole or whatever. Let me know, I'm looking for some sort of advice on handling this appropriately.


    Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to shed some gravity on the situation.


    Thank you all in advance for your comments, time and consideration.


    P.S. to Moderator Emily Blake: This post is not meant to circumvent the post I left on your blog today. I wanted to type all of this, there, but I felt it would be inappropriate due to your post being about Carson Reeves specifically. I didn't want to just take over from your post. But if you still feel my plight warrants its own post on your blog, then BY ALL MEANS, BE MY GUEST. =)
    The D is not silent, its DEAD; I shot it just to watch it die. Capiche, Mon Amie? SAY WHAT AGAIN!!!!!!!

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    Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

    Wow. A powerful read. I admire you for your courage in continuing to chase your dream despite all of your family woes. Your story does an excellent job in placing our menial problems in perspective. Maybe an agent passing on our script isn't the worst thing we could be dealing with right now.

    Originally posted by Django UnScathed View Post
    In the mean time I am working on a sci-fi action epic screenplay to be submitted to Amazon Studios, Circle of Confusion in Queens or to New York managers in general.
    I'm also working on a sci-fi action epic What's your logline?

    P.S. whatever you do, DON'T SUBMIT IT TO AMAZON!!!
    I'm never wrong. Reality is just stubborn.

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    • #3
      Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

      Originally posted by FoxHound View Post
      Wow. A powerful read. I admire you for your courage in continuing to chase your dream despite all of your family woes. Your story does an excellent job in placing our menial problems in perspective. Maybe an agent passing on our script isn't the worst thing we could be dealing with right now.



      I'm also working on a sci-fi action epic What's your logline?

      P.S. whatever you do, DON'T SUBMIT IT TO AMAZON!!!

      Thank you for taking the time to read my novel post lol. Yeah Im still fighting, I'll give up when I'm dead. The funny thing is , they dont support me in my dream, yet my stepfather said this two weeks ago, "when you make it big, get me a Rolls Royce Phantom." Like Really ? Did i just hear that? Maybe Im getting old, Im hearing things, Im 27 but it can happen, lol.

      Right now Im working on the logline/story, until I can feel confidant in it. Then write out a treatment scene by scene. I figure if I divide 110 pages into 11 sections and every scene/scenes take up a maximum of 10 pages each, writing the actual screenplay wont seem so daunting.

      The sci-fi epic has to do with Titans. I love Clash/Wrath of the Titans but we never actually mingle with the Titans. We meet The Olympians Zeus, Hades, Posiedon etc. So I'm indulging myself with the Titans and how they're family dynamics work, so I can make something great. Well at least to me, because I am the audience for that sort of thing, so I'm extra critical on it.

      Why should I not submit to Amazon? So far they seem cool enough to me, but maybe you know something I dont.

      To be honest, my major problem with Amazon Studios is the option. Granted I can use 10k RIGHT NOW, but the stories I come up with are similar to Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, War of the Worlds, Conan, Matrix, Inception, etc. Im a former Business student with an Associates. I think in terms of stories that can leveraged in as many mediums as possible, as many products as possible.

      So its hard for me to submit to Amazon for 10k, when I write stories to be potential franchises, at least multi-million if not billion dollar ones. It has taken me over a year to come up with a story I'm willing to part with for 10k, knowing the studio can make 100 million plus 5 to 10 years from now, and im in the theater, broke and fuming.

      And its not like Amazon is gonna call me up perosnally and explain that they'll give me more incentives and/or more play down the road. They dont know me and I dont know them, so its like trying to trust the Unknown with my own star wars, with no guarantees or nothing. But if I dont try something, it wont work anyway right? Decisions, decisions.

      Okay Im rambling lol, thanks again for your comment.
      The D is not silent, its DEAD; I shot it just to watch it die. Capiche, Mon Amie? SAY WHAT AGAIN!!!!!!!

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      • #4
        Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

        This is life.

        This is your life.

        We all need to decide what the right balance is between family obligations, personal aspirations, and cold, hard reality---and it's best to stay adaptable because those things can change at any given time.

        In general, if the pursuit of your dreams is making people suffer for a prolonged amount of time, it might be a good thing to reassess what you're doing.

        On the other hand, if you decide to go all in on some project, there are going to be times when family time (and it gets even harder when you have kids) is going to suffer and there's little you can do about it.

        Perhaps you have too many irons in the fire and perhaps you have too many projects that you jump into at the drop of a hat in your desire to hit it big. If that's the case, you might want to work on establishing a more steady amount of time to devote to "fantasy" projects and let your family know up front what that schedule will probably be.

        For example, if I know I'm writing to a deadline, I know when that crunch time is going to hit and I'll be basically limited to unavailable to cook, clean, help with kids, etc. That still doesn't make it easy on the family, but at least they understand when it's coming and when it will be over.

        A happy life is about finding balance, but figuring out what that balance actually is depends on each individual.
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        • #5
          Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

          Originally posted by Mr. Earth View Post
          This is life.

          This is your life.

          We all need to decide what the right balance is between family obligations, personal aspirations, and cold, hard reality---and it's best to stay adaptable because those things can change at any given time.

          In general, if the pursuit of your dreams is making people suffer for a prolonged amount of time, it might be a good thing to reassess what you're doing.

          On the other hand, if you decide to go all in on some project, there are going to be times when family time (and it gets even harder when you have kids) is going to suffer and there's little you can do about it.

          Perhaps you have too many irons in the fire and perhaps you have too many projects that you jump into at the drop of a hat in your desire to hit it big. If that's the case, you might want to work on establishing a more steady amount of time to devote to "fantasy" projects and let your family know up front what that schedule will probably be.

          For example, if I know I'm writing to a deadline, I know when that crunch time is going to hit and I'll be basically limited to unavailable to cook, clean, help with kids, etc. That still doesn't make it easy on the family, but at least they understand when it's coming and when it will be over.

          A happy life is about finding balance, but figuring out what that balance actually is depends on each individual.
          I hear what you are saying Mr. Earth, but I dont think you fully understand.

          My projects have never jeopardized the family. I barely have had projects. The links to videos are videos I have done since i was 20-27, so 6-7 short films is not gonna jeopardize the welfare of a family.

          My family just plain and simple dont want me to do filmmaking. They rather I bus tables or be a custodian or a store clerk. Im not saying there is anything wrong with those professions. Im stating they should appreciate the stuff I have done for them, like I do for them. Its a 2 way street. I have supported them in the goals they had and the should support me.

          I applied to work at a movie theater. They dont like that idea and told me to work at Red Lobster. Im getting the same pay at both so whats the ****ing difference. Control.

          If anyone should be balance it should be them. I clearly state A FEW things I have done to help the family. I have given jobs, regular steady income to help them. Someone chime in and tell me who would done the same for their own family.

          I appreciate the time you took the comment but I feel you veered down a road that was closed off.

          Thanks again.
          The D is not silent, its DEAD; I shot it just to watch it die. Capiche, Mon Amie? SAY WHAT AGAIN!!!!!!!

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          • #6
            Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

            Welcome to Done Deal Django. You will have a lot of people pulling for your success on this board. You're in the right place. Dreams and hope carry us all a long way. Not just here but in lots of corners of our lives. But you probably know that better than most.

            My guess is that 90% of everyone who has ever done anything great, especially by breaking into a field that offered long odds for success, were told the same thing as you. And many who gave up believed it.

            What may be fantasy and what may not be fantasy; we will never know until we reach the end of the story. But you are nowhere close to the end. And I would hope that most of us agree that even if we don't reach our ultimate goals as writers, there are many good things to come from the journey.

            Please write. You have a lot to say, and the place where you say it from is somewhere that a lot of people never see - and can only really understand if they see it through the eyes of someone who has been there.

            I guess what I am taking a long time to say is - as a parent of a son who is a high school musician and film-maker who wants to take the same road as you, all my wife and I have ever told him is to follow his heart and do what he loves every day - but try to find a way to make a living at it, even if he has to adjust (downward) his view of the material things he wants out of life in return for the intangible benefits of creating. We will do the best to be there to catch him if he falls, but that's irrelevant to him (fortunately) as he is only thinking of succeeding - which I think has to be the mindset going into anything like this -- we feel he has to try, and try with everything he has. I would give the same advice to you, if you asked. So go out there and make yourself proud -- we will be proud too, even if it turns out to be simply following your heart (and hopefully it will be much more for you than that)
            Last edited by tucsonray; 11-08-2012, 05:51 AM.
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            • #7
              Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

              Welcome to DDP.

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              • #8
                Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

                Originally posted by Django UnScathed View Post
                I hear what you are saying Mr. Earth, but I dont think you fully understand.

                My projects have never jeopardized the family. I barely have had projects. The links to videos are videos I have done since i was 20-27, so 6-7 short films is not gonna jeopardize the welfare of a family.

                My family just plain and simple dont want me to do filmmaking. They rather I bus tables or be a custodian or a store clerk. Im not saying there is anything wrong with those professions. Im stating they should appreciate the stuff I have done for them, like I do for them. Its a 2 way street. I have supported them in the goals they had and the should support me.

                I applied to work at a movie theater. They dont like that idea and told me to work at Red Lobster. Im getting the same pay at both so whats the ****ing difference. Control.

                If anyone should be balance it should be them. I clearly state A FEW things I have done to help the family. I have given jobs, regular steady income to help them. Someone chime in and tell me who would done the same for their own family.

                I appreciate the time you took the comment but I feel you veered down a road that was closed off.

                Thanks again.
                Obviously, I don't know your specific situation, that's why I chose to use terms like "if" and "perhaps."

                But, from what you wrote it sounds like you are trying to get into any production you can wedge yourself into. It also sounds like your family is tired of living with someone with their head in the clouds. But that opinion is based purely on what you've posted here, for what else is there to go on?

                Regardless of the self-sacrificing that you are telling us you are doing, the fact is, you are also 27 and living at home with your parents. You can pretend that it's a typical roommate relationship and nothing more, but that's ridiculous. They're still your parents, so they're still going to treat you like a child no matter what the lease says.

                The obvious answer here is that you need to move out on your own and live your own life. If you can't do that because you can't stand the thought of your parents suffering or you can't afford it, then that's exactly what I was talking about when I was saying we all need to make choices and find that right balance between family obligations, personal aspirations, and cold, hard reality.

                But then that's where it really gets to the root of this. Is it really true that you are doing all this for your family or is this living situation what allows you to pursue this work in film? If it's the latter, then you're not really being honest about your motives and it's very possible that that's what is actually bugging your family.

                If you choose to live with your parents, then you are also choosing to deal with their "controlling" of your life. If you don't like, move out. That's a basic part of life.
                On Twitter @DeadManSkipping

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                • #9
                  Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

                  Originally posted by tucsonray View Post
                  Welcome to Done Deal Django. You will have a lot of people pulling for your success on this board. You're in the right place. Dreams and hope carry us all a long way. Not just here but in lots of corners of our lives. But you probably know that better than most.

                  My guess is that 90% of everyone who has ever done anything great, especially by breaking into a field that offered long odds for success, were told the same thing as you. And many who gave up believed it.

                  What may be fantasy and what may not be fantasy; we will never know until we reach the end of the story. But you are nowhere close to the end. And I would hope that most of us agree that even if we don't reach our ultimate goals as writers, there are many good things to come from the journey.

                  Please write. You have a lot to say, and the place where you say it from is somewhere that a lot of people never see - and can only really understand if they see it through the eyes of someone who has been there.

                  I guess what I am taking a long time to say is - as a parent of a son who is a high school musician and film-maker who wants to take the same road as you, all my wife and I have ever told him is to follow his heart and do what he loves every day - but try to find a way to make a living at it, even if he has to adjust (downward) his view of the material things he wants out of life in return for the intangible benefits of creating. We will do the best to be there to catch him if he falls, but that's irrelevant to him (fortunately) as he is only thinking of succeeding - which I think has to be the mindset going into anything like this -- we feel he has to try, and try with everything he has. I would give the same advice to you, if you asked. So go out there and make yourself proud -- we will be proud too, even if it turns out to be simply following your heart (and hopefully it will be much more for you than that)
                  Thank You Tucsonray, thank you. This is why I joined Done Deal. I found it in October and after looking around, I felt it was safe enough to branch out to other writers. I love the fact a lot of members are so much more experienced and open to sharing those experiences with others.

                  I was actually shocked to see a manager here, Mr. Botti I believe, sharing great tidbits for us writers to snack on.

                  This post along with others I have received solidify my decision to join. To be honest this is the first one I ever joined. I am also at Amazon Studios, but most of the writers over there are so embittered, the effort of collaboration can be retired to a museum.

                  Thank you for being one of the many holding the door open and I do not intend to be walking through them alone. =)
                  The D is not silent, its DEAD; I shot it just to watch it die. Capiche, Mon Amie? SAY WHAT AGAIN!!!!!!!

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                  • #10
                    Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

                    Well, Precious... I'd say this racket ain't for the meek of heart, and it's a bitch for anyone of any stripe or any background to break into.

                    You know that scene in GOOD WILL HUNTING where Will says:

                    "He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, 'Choose.'"

                    Sean: Well, I gotta go with the belt there.

                    Will: I used to go with the wrench.

                    Sean: Why the wrench?

                    "Cause fuck him, that's why."

                    Many other jobs in the world are much more attainable. They're the belt and the stick. That's how I look at trying to make it in the film industry. It's picking the wrench.

                    If you're specifically trying to write, getting the shit kicked out of you all your life can actually come in handy. You know pathos and you know conflict and you know the human condition.

                    Trying to learn to distill all that into effective cinematic writing is something that will take time, and it's something you're going to have to nurture and come into humble - there are no shortcuts to success and as they say: "Every overnight success was ten years in the making."

                    But you have a head start as an artist due to your fucked up existence thus far. Turn it into a positive and try to tap into it to render something approximating real emotion and catharsis on the page.

                    Now, let's see those scars.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

                      Originally posted by Mr. Earth View Post
                      Obviously, I don't know your specific situation, that's why I chose to use terms like "if" and "perhaps."

                      But, from what you wrote it sounds like you are trying to get into any production you can wedge yourself into. It also sounds like your family is tired of living with someone with their head in the clouds. But that opinion is based purely on what you've posted here, for what else is there to go on?

                      Regardless of the self-sacrificing that you are telling us you are doing, the fact is, you are also 27 and living at home with your parents. You can pretend that it's a typical roommate relationship and nothing more, but that's ridiculous. They're still your parents, so they're still going to treat you like a child no matter what the lease says.

                      The obvious answer here is that you need to move out on your own and live your own life. If you can't do that because you can't stand the thought of your parents suffering or you can't afford it, then that's exactly what I was talking about when I was saying we all need to make choices and find that right balance between family obligations, personal aspirations, and cold, hard reality.

                      But then that's where it really gets to the root of this. Is it really true that you are doing all this for your family or is this living situation what allows you to pursue this work in film? If it's the latter, then you're not really being honest about your motives and it's very possible that that's what is actually bugging your family.

                      If you choose to live with your parents, then you are also choosing to deal with their "controlling" of your life. If you don't like, move out. That's a basic part of life.
                      Thank you for your unconditional apathetic responses to my posts. You are right, if I don't like it, move out. That's what I intend to do in the coming year.

                      I like how your trying to paint me or at least stipulate me as a leech in your posts. So this is the best writing you can do at 9 am in the morning? Maybe your bored. I guess it comes with the territory when someone posts honest things for the public to see and some anonymous Cymothoa exigua comes along to digest to someones life.

                      If I left the house, they would have to move, that's how the building works, the bigger the family, the bigger the available apartment. So me being here is helping them. I have gotten offers to be roommates with others, like a director of photography named Kidane Miriam in the Lower East Side and turned him down, but you don't care so whatever.

                      In any case, now you don't have to trouble yourself with this thread and can move on to spreading holiday dysfunction some place else. Maybe try out querying a logline to the MichaelB thread if you lack something else to do.

                      Take Care.
                      The D is not silent, its DEAD; I shot it just to watch it die. Capiche, Mon Amie? SAY WHAT AGAIN!!!!!!!

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                      • #12
                        Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

                        Hi Django and welcome to Done Deal Pro.

                        While I appreciate the situation you describe, it's time to shrug off the "poor me" attitude and really get to the guts of your problems.

                        You live at home with your parents. You're 27. They are bugging you about all sorts of different things. If you want that bugging to stop, then you need to move out.

                        If you can support yourself and pay rent and bills and food, then do it.

                        Write at night (or day if you work nights). I can't tell you how many times I've stayed up till four am just to get the words on the page when I've had to be in work for eight.

                        What I'm about to say next might upset you but it needs to be said so brace yourself .

                        No one except you and your family and friends cares about your situation. The world is full of people in your situation. It's what you do with that situation that matters.

                        No one cares that you have it tough. We all have tough times in our lives, over and over. We all have to make choices that sometimes hurt others or piss them off or makes them feel bad.

                        That's life. It sounds like your family is very controlling and is perhaps threatened by you. If that's the case, you need to get away. If writing and films is the only thing that you care about, you have to make that happen.

                        I reeeeaaallllyyy don't want to come across as not compassionate here. I care deeply about people and want them to be happy and to succeed. And it sounds like you've had a terrible start to your life.

                        But your fate lies only in your hands. YOU are the only one who can make the decisions that need to be made.

                        So you can work hard? Great. That will stand to you when you have a deadline and you haven't slept for three days because there's a scene that just won't work for you.

                        So you're good at making money? Great. That will help you when the writing jobs are thin on the ground and you have nothing to eat but six month old noodles.

                        If you're serious about this business, then nothing will stop you "keeping your head in the clouds".

                        In order to be a writer, your head must hit the clouds frequently, but there is also that little matter of life and food and bills and rent. If you are too focused on the clouds, you sometimes miss the earth and that's where all the cool stuff happens.

                        I sincerely hope that things work out for you. But if you have a job and means to get out of the situation you're in, you're the only one who can do that.

                        Peace. And I wish you the best of luck whatever you decide.
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                        • #13
                          Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

                          Originally posted by Django UnScathed View Post
                          Thank you for your unconditional apathetic responses to my posts. You are right, if I don't like it, move out. That's what I intend to do in the coming year.

                          I like how your trying to paint me or at least stipulate me as a leech in your posts. So this is the best writing you can do at 9 am in the morning? Maybe your bored. I guess it comes with the territory when someone posts honest things for the public to see and some anonymous Cymothoa exigua comes along to digest to someones life.

                          If I left the house, they would have to move, that's how the building works, the bigger the family, the bigger the available apartment. So me being here is helping them. I have gotten offers to be roommates with others, like a director of photography named Kidane Miriam in the Lower East Side and turned him down, but you don't care so whatever.

                          In any case, now you don't have to trouble yourself with this thread and can move on to spreading holiday dysfunction some place else. Maybe try out querying a logline to the MichaelB thread if you lack something else to do.

                          Take Care.
                          You're funny.

                          What kind of response are you looking for here? "Parents suck ass sooo mcuh!!!!!!!!11!!! Never let us doo anything!!1!1"

                          I understand how the building works. I understand your situation. It's not that complicated and it's not that unusual.

                          We all have to make choices on what we want to do and how far we'll go to pursue our dreams. I'm sure my odds would improve greatly of writing for TV or screen if I moved to LA, but I've made the choice to stick around the Midwest, at least for the time being, because of family, work, friends, fear, whatever.

                          The point is, if those consequences prevent me from ever realizing my ultimate dream, am I cool with that? Right now that answer would be yes. Of course, it would be a bummer on some level, but I'd be okay with it because I've learned how to find happiness and success in other parts of my life and it's not like I have to be in any particular locale to write or enjoy film.

                          Apparently, you are not in that place of happiness in your current situation, so your only choices are to either change the scenario or learn how to deal with it.
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                          • #14
                            Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

                            Everything is a dream until it becomes a reality.

                            It's just a shame 99% of us will never experience the reality.

                            We share your woes, brother.

                            Let your head wander into the clouds but keep your feet firmly on the ground with reality.

                            This is a marathon without a finishing line -- where most of the time you feel like you're chasing a carrot on a stick.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Is the Motion Picture & Television Industry a Fantasy I should wake up from?

                              There's so much going on in NY, production wise. Get a production job. Get an internship, work for free. If you can't or won't make those things happen, then consider another direction in life.

                              Originally posted by Django UnScathed View Post
                              Right now I'm looking for a job, to add on to my new, fledging, retail business and try to get rid of these student loans in 6 months to a year. In the mean time I am working on a sci-fi action epic screenplay to be submitted to Amazon Studios, Circle of Confusion in Queens or to New York managers in general.

                              I would like anyone willing, to ask themselves 'how would you feel if you have done or suffered all I have stated above for your family and someone you love, says your dreams are fantasy and you need to wake up?'

                              How would your respond to that? Personally I have been pissed all day and feel like walking out the door as I type this. I feel like because I'm not the breadwinner, I don't mean much in my family, well at least my word is as good as monopoly dough.
                              Last edited by Done Deal Pro; 11-08-2012, 09:22 AM. Reason: Trimmed down the quote so post wasn't so long.

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