How to Make It in Hollywood

by Linda Buzzell

Renowned psychotherapist and career counselor Linda Buzzell is the expert in knowing how to create and develop a career in Hollywood. With this book, she shows you how to look at your personality, your strengths, your weaknesses, your special skills, and your talents in order to target your personal goals and maximize your career success. She then explains all the jobs in Hollywood and how to find them, get them, and advance through each stage in your career.

How To Make It in Hollywood includes everything you need to know about agents, managers, lawyers, the casting couch, chutzpah, schmoozing, networking, Godfather Calls, rhino skin, Power Rolodexes, handling rejection, constant unemployment, and keeping yourself on the track to your dreams when real life keeps telling you to give it all up and move back to Cincinnati!

Author Biography: Linda Buzzell has worked as a production company vice president at Columbia and Lorimar, a development executive for Jacques Cousteau, and an associate producer of documentaries for ABC and PBS.

As the founder and director of the Entertainment Industry Career Institute, she has helped thousands of people in the entertainment industry with both personal and professional issues. She teaches at the American Film Institute and lives in California.

Genres: Nonfiction, Film

416 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1992

Reviews

[Michael Lawrence · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of the books I bought to help me "Make it in Hollywood".
I been here long enough to know that a fucking book won't make you anything out here. And this book was no different.

Some tips that could be possibly helpful to a new kid outta highschool maybe. But there wasn't much for me. Some tips on living constantly unemployed I guess are helpful. As I have been that for a long hungry time :)

It also talks about agents, managers, networking and the business of film and acting. Other than that its just a self help book trying to help you realize your strengths and weaknesses and such things as that.

You wanna make it in Hollywood, come to Hollywood. Not Barnes and Noble. Yes.. I bought it there.

[Walter Herrera · Rating 3 out of 5]

It could be better.....

Great at telling the reader what Hollywood is like, not so good at telling the reader how to actually make it in Hollywood. In my humble opinion, there are better books out there. You’ll be fine if you skip this book.

[Cazlam · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was another good 'How to' in Hollywood... it would have got a 5, but it is very outdated (from the 90s), but a lot of the advice still holds up. Will definitely reread when I get back.

[Lindsay · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stocking stuffer from Dad.

Outdated but still some valuable insights

Will revisit when I want to quit this career and move back home 👍🏼