Sean Ringgold recalls how the quote "Success is your greatest revenge" kept him going through years of rejection pitching film projects. He frames persistence and one person finally saying yes as the real path to what looks like overnight success.
One quote that stood out to me. Success is your greatest revenge. And it has never failed me. Because when you start to succeed, everybody then wants to come along and help you. And it just gives them, without having to say, remember how you treated me? They now know that they can't come back and ask for a favor. All they can do is watch you win. And as you succeed and you become a leader, you become a better man for your family, for your children, the books, that one quote, it's changed my life. That drove you. Oh, it still drives me to this very day. When you know, you're producing, you're raising money for films, and you're trying to sell a project to a network, you get rejected in this world, you fail your way to the top. Tons of rejection. Tons of rejection. And with a smile on your face like, yeah, all right. And then when that one person says yes, all of a sudden you're overnight success.
