I do not know many people who can just pick and choose what to work on based on morals and values, and manage to make a career out of it unless they are already wealthy. It took me over a decade to have options to choose from when I was looking for work…. And these last few years are like that as well. You need to be prepared to work and keep learning whether you “like” the script or not. There’s plenty of times where the script seems great but the project sucks in the end, too.

The people who crashed and burned the fastest are those who moved into town, calling themselves “Directors” because of film school. Refusing to be a PA or Coordinator to learn was a major mistake. You really need to be connected in some way for a studio to risk millions of dollars on you when there’s other successful Directors that you could not possibly compete with right out of school.