Eric Fellner Quotes

The most effective tool I have to work with artists I admire is to point to other artists that I admire and show that I've worked with them many, many times. It's not because I have option deals; it's because they want to keep working with us.

A lot about this industry is about who you know. If you set a really good example for yourself, and someone likes that, then they might recommend you to someone else. It doesn't matter what job you're in, any profession, it's always the same.

You will not find outsiders getting main, important roles in big films. The difficult part is to meet the right people.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles.

It's very difficult in France to get access to castings when you don't have any relationships.

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

Well, basically I have a lot of friends because I've been in the business a long time and worked with a lot of people.

I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!

I always look at auditions as not even getting the job as much as I'm just trying to connect with this casting director so they remember me for next time.

I always tell other actors that work begets work. You never know where your next job is going to lead you, down the road.

I always had an interest in wanting to act, but my family wasn't in the entertainment industry at all, and we didn't know anyone. We didn't really even know how you begin to crack that nut.

I worked with Ty Dolla Sign, YG, Nipsey Hussle, Metro Boomin - I build relationships, and I try to stay afloat with everyone who is hot or cool, period.

I certainly think it's important to build relationships with movers and shakers in the fashion industry.

Trying to get somebody to read your script and you're a musician? That's the last person whose script you're gonna read!

When I wanted the CEO of Starbucks to keep me in mind for their board, I sent him a note rather than calling. I call it dripping: You don't want to be like a faucet full-on; you want to drip just enough that they don't forget about you.

In my industry who you know is very important.

The assistants, the managers, the PR, the person whose coordinating, the person in production - those are the people I loved communicating with and building network relationships with.

You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.

That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business.

Most of the time for movies and stuff, with the exception of Jeff Nichols, who I've worked with a few times, you just don't know people too well. Everyone is cordial and nice and some people are very genuinely friendly, but once the movie is over you never see them again.