March 3, 2004
roulette
I believe in the maxim, “When others zig, zag.“
I believe in having a niche. I believe in avoiding crowded markets like the plague.
Which is the weird thing about Hollywood– everybody using one of the same half-dozen ideas as everybody else– and there’s tens of thousands of these people.
“I’m going to be a famous actor.“
“I’m going to direct.“
“I’m going to sell my screenplay.“
“I’m going to produce.“
It’s basically a roulette wheel. A very big one. One ball, thousands of slots.
So when you meet a roulette player at the party, he or she is basically going to ask you one question, and one question only: “Can you improve my odds?“
If you can’t answer “yes”, you are no longer interesting. And he or she moves on within nanoseconds.
I don’t have a problem with that. Pat a dog, he likes you. Feed a dog, he likes you better.
Woof.
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I like the entries like this one a lot. You should start doing them more often again. That’s my $0.02.
Bret is right, but the pat a dog/feed a dog sentences sound a lot like a cartoon.