Educate yourself on the business of the business. Read the trades — Deadline, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, listen to podcasts (
recommendations HERE), subscribe to newsletters.
Read as many scripts as you possibly can. Get your hands on scripts of movies you’ve seen and scripts of movies that haven't been made. The Blacklist website and Google are generally your friends for this.
Watch movies and TV shows. Watch as much as you possibly can. Use it to start developing taste and determine what you like vs. what the industry likes, and where you fit in to all of that. Figure out what’s been done before and how well it’s been done before.
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