The Great American Phony
but he left everything in his financially unstable, one horse town, where he was a wedding photographer and had just gotten off the bus and was going to become a Director. So I had to tell him, no major film director, walks into a major film studio and gets a job directing. I told him that he would have to go down to one of the major film studios and ask if they need any production assistants, because that’s how everyone who directs, gets started in the film business. The only other way, to become a major motion picture Director, is to walk into a studio with a couple million dollars and a script, but most Directors today, start at the bottom and work their way to the top and become Directors. The one thing that all of the Great American Phonies have in common, is that most of them don’t actually like hard work, and I believe it’s all about the “dream” of becoming a “famous
