Create Your Own Break

In cinema, no one waits for you.

The phone doesn’t ring because you’re talented. It rings because you made enough noise with your work.

Actors become stars not by waiting for the “right script,” but by showing up, learning, creating, and collaborating until opportunity has no choice but to notice them.

Every director, writer, or technician you admire once stood outside a locked gate — and built their own door.

In the film world, creating opportunity means writing your own short, shooting your own reel, joining hands with fellow dreamers, and saying, “Let’s make something.”

The industry rewards action, not waiting. Because magic doesn’t happen on its own — it’s directed, shot, and edited by those who dare to begin.

Opportunities don’t just happen. You create them. 

- Manohar Chimmani