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Number one, watch and love TV. Find out everything you can about it. Wonderful thing about the internet: there’s so much information out there; there are so many, you know, wonderful things like this; there are informations[sic] on ratings, informations[sic] about what the networks are doing, information about what cable channels are doing. That’s #1 – gain knowledge. Number two, you know what? Have a work ethic. You know? A work ethic. You’ve got to work hard to succeed, and I do think that I notice a little bit of a difference between people born in the 1980’s versus born in the 1970’s and born in the 1960’s, which is there is – there is a belief that you can get everywhere based on talent, and the reality is that you don’t get everywhere based on talent in the work world. I would say you get 90 percent of your work world based on how hard you’re willing to work and how hard you’re willing to commit to what you’re doing. So get prepared to work really, really hard for it. And I think the third thing is, is you’ve got to meet people and know people. If I sort of went back and looked at most of the success I’ve had in my career and there’s, you know what, there’s been a lot of failure too, but all you really have to do is end up having successes just outweigh the failures. Most of the successes I’ve had have been through the contacts I’ve made from a long life. Some of the most important people I work with now are people I met when I was like 16 or 17 years old in Britain. Others, people I met when I was in college. Others, I befriended every assistant, every production assistant, every writer’s assistant when I was 22-23 between Florida and then L.A., and a lot of those people who I knew when I was 23 and 24 who had no power, they had, you know, were unemployed half the time and were really struggling in what they were doing, those are people now who are running networks, running cable channels, running companies, running ad agencies, doing really important things. And I think that, you know, a career is a long time and it’s mostly out of contacts and who you know and doing business with people you trust and other people who trust you doing business with you. Don’t think it’s glamorous. Don’t do it because you think you’re going to meet celebrities. Don’t do it because you think you’re going to make tons of money. Do it because the idea of working in insurance or banking or any more mainstream profession – being a lawyer, being a doctor – seems impossibly boring. Television really suits people who love television and who are easily bored, because, in television, you’ll never be doing the same thing day after day, hour to hour, minute to minute. A slight difference between TV and film, which is something I deal a lot with people. Film is a much deeper process, often a more intelligent process, but it is a very, very slow process. Television is lightning fast. Lightning fast. Film is about individual filmmakers having a lot of power and a lot of control. A – directors are the starts. In TV, producers are ultimately the stars, but producers are only as good as their whole team. It’s a – if you’re good at teamwork, if you’re good at working with other people, if you’re easily bored, if you want to work in a fast-moving environment, and if you don’t mind working really hard and trying over the course of years to build your career, television really, really makes sense. We have a website EmbassyRow.com and we’re open. You know, we’re open. People, you know, can apply to have jobs, you know, here. People can get in contact with us. People can send us ideas. You can get to me. I’m easy to get to. Do you have something worth getting to me on? You know, the only thing I would advise you is wait to contact me until you have something really good or when you’re ready, because if you’re not ready or if you’ve got an idea that’s not ready and you’ve contacted me with it now, you probably won’t get a second chance to impress. You only get, you know, you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. That is like, you know, an old adage.
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