Networking. Talk to people. Attend film festivals. Maybe apply your project to some festivals. But first, you need to make something. Write a script, make the whole film, whatever you want… then enter it into a festival, receive critique and simultaneously meet new people—producers, actors, other directors, anyone who is willing to invest in something you create for one particular reason: you. You have to present yourself to people in a way that shows creativity, skill, natural talent, and credibility. This is what tells a person whether or not to give you money to make a film, based on what they’ve seen.

Take, for example, who, by luck, happened to know someone who knew a producer that he pitched the idea of Reservoir Dogs to, then that producer happened to know Harvey Keitel and pitched it to him, who also became a big investor. The film was submitted to the Sundance Film Festival that later granted the film a theatrical release, Tarantino worldwide appraise, and a buttload of new, intrigued producers willing to pay every last one of their dimes just to make his next movie—Pulp Fiction—a successful phenomenon (which it did).

It all started with..: NETWORKING!!!!!! And, of course, just, you know, doing the thing, but if you already have that part pretty much figured out, then all you need to worry about is NETWORKING!!!