Film Courage: I love what you said about rejection sometimes when I'll do you know I'll
watch videos or I'll read about an actor or a writer or a musician I find that
actually some of them that have really thrived they had a very painful early
rejection and I'm just wondering does that almost because you had that first
early painful rejection any new rejections it's like okay casting
director didn't like me well my own father rejected me so what could be
worse you know so I see that sometimes I've seen I've actually looked at a lot
of people's lives nothing like wow that person I really admire they grew up in a
tough situation and I'm wondering if that almost helps in some sense I think
your ability to deal with pain and how you deal with that determines your life
journey yeah every rejection and this it sounds crazy but every rejection is
painful but it's not personal
of course the 20 people before you are rejected also they weren't rejected
because they're not talented and you may be more talented than the person who got
that job not because they're more talented than you but because in this is
gonna sound crazy because if you have 50,000 social media followers and they
have 5 million because it's a job so it's not personal and it's not meant to
be personal it's business they put 5060 million dollars into the
movie you may do the same very well but that other person is gonna bring five
million eyeballs so just suppose 10% of them buy tickets that's 500,000 tickets
for opening day you know and it sounds harsh but I have a question if you put
50 million downwards or 150 million dollars into a film when you be
interested on the ROI of your investment I mean you may love Henry but if Sam can
bring you 50 million eyeballs for the hundred and fifty million you've spent
you're gonna think about it so we think they're mean and horrible people No No
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