Bond with power

Assistants.  

In Hollywood they are considered the lowest of the low, the first wrung on the ladder .  But just take a second and think. Who is taking your calls? Who is making your meetings? Who is getting your meals? Who is dealing with the clients when you can't? Assistants.  

Whether it be your assistant or someone else's, assistants are key in any company or any important film execs. life. 

Ever treat someone else's assistant like shit? It will come back to you. Next time you schedule an appointment and "There is no availability until Christmas" That might not be entirely true. That's what you get for being a jerk.  

Now this may not be true for say when another major Film Exec call that assistant's boss. But if an equally lowly person in Hollywood treats an assistant like shit if will come back to them. Aspiring Directors, Screenwriters, etc. we are all hanging from that first wrung just taking different paths. We might be assistants and that seems "below you" but in a few years  you will be pitching your scripts to us, so be nice now and be rewarded later. Further more we get enough from our boss' before we take the same shit  from you. 

I once meet a man at a networking event. He stumbled over to me, wine in hand. "Hey, sweetie are you an actress?" 

Slightly offended I said, " No I'm a Buyer." Boy did his ears perk up at that one. Sellers search for buyers at these events to pitch their next big film. 

"Who are you with?" The interrogation began. 

"What's your position?" 

"Assistant to the President" I say beginning to get his angle. 

That calmed him down and he began looking over my head for someone better to talk to because if I'm not a film buyer or an actress then what use am I to him?

"An assistant? Assistants have no power. I always go to meet with people and their assistants change too much. I can never get meetings." He says. 

Here's a few tips aspiring director: 

          1. That exec probably didn't want to meet with you. 

          2. If you treated that assistant like this; your name "got lost in the shuffle." 

Take my advice assistants may seem lowly now but those assistants will be the producers, film execs., and buyers in a few years.  

They are the ones you want on your side.