← Barry Floyd’s 6 Steps to Making it in Hollywood

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By Anslem Samuel | Published April 5, 2011 | Full size is 432 × 480 pixels

3,000 miles is a short distance to travel for your dreams While it’s possible to act anywhere, the heart of the movie business is in California and, according to Floyd, that’s where anyone that’s serious about acting, writing or producing needs to be. “A lot of people try to do it from Atlanta or New York because this is a long way to move for people,” he says. “I came from the East Coast—that’s 3,000 miles—with no friends or family out here so it’s an intimidating thing to do but you have to do it because even though there’s work in New York and Atlanta, most of the work is here [in LA]. You got to be out here and you got to be making connections. That’s the main thing just having the courage to move out here and just go all in.”

3,000 miles is a short distance to travel for your dreams While it’s possible…

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