Dave Franco Quotes

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.

In modelling, it's very hard to keep in touch with the people you knew when you started.

I think there is really something we need to examine about the notion of careers, and are women encouraged and given the same opportunities to have vital healthy careers in which they are challenged by certain things, they try new things, they struggle, maybe they stumble, maybe they fail, and then there's more room to succeed as well.

Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I would work with one day.

I had no support, no opportunity, no sponsors backing me for most of my career.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

ROIers are always reaching out to me to share their appreciation for the experiences, opportunities and connections we have provided and also to express their excitement about taking the next step in their leadership journey.

I know I don't go looking for directors. I always wonder why they chose me.

I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.

One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace' premiered in July, so that I could go and meet people that I wanted to meet: the writers and the directors and the people that are doing things.

I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad.

Even after choreographing some big numbers, I didn't qualify as the top choreographer. You need to have godfathers and big people to support you for others to take you seriously.

I know a lot of times you don't even get the opportunity to audition for people you really want to work with because there is a business angle involved.

There's a lot of 'who you know' in this business, and I don't think I skipped a step on the journey.

Boy, if you dont have the network and the producers that believe in you, it's too, too much.

The most important thing is to recognize how important it is to market yourself and make connections.

The biggest thing I learned at Wisconsin was, it's all who you work for, not where you work or what level.

If my work is liked, not just Karan Johar or Remo D'Souza, anyone would give me roles.

We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.

I was never much of a networker.

Roles came to me. I was very, very lucky in that respect. Great directors, great writers, great producers - they saw something in me that they wanted for their picture or their play or whatever it was, whether it was Edward Albee or whether it was - or Peter Hall, directors. They would come to me, thank God. I was lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky.

Hollywood's a business, and until someone puts their finger on you and decides you're the guy who's going to carry that movie, it's not going to happen.

Today, most newcomers from film families are launched in outside films.