2) Simply interacting with people in Los Angeles over the years will earn you numerous opportunities to meet someone who has the power to give you a "big break". Whether they do is almost entirely dependent on what you have done before that meeting. Getting that meeting shouldn't be your top priority. Build up your selling points before you try to make a sale. Would you trust an unknown, self-proclaimed architect with millions of dollars to design your home? Or would you rather go with someone who has designed structures before that have actually been built, that you like, and that are still standing?
3) Make lots of friends and help them whenever you can beause you never know who will "get over the wall" first among your cohorts. Most importantly make stuff on your own! Equipment is cheap and when you're a novice so is your time. Be entrepreneurial. Always have "side projects" because you never know what will hit. Hold more than one lottery ticket. And finally, learn the "academic" side of your career because that's objectively determinable and only takes time & effort. "
4) This business is all about inertia. Other than money, there's no such thing as potential power in Hollywood. The only power that exists is that which is exerted. Owed favors are a farce. Go ahead and take any and every kind of favor that is offered because, I believe, favors work counter-intuitively. It's not "I do you a favor and now you owe me a favor" but rather it's oddly "I do you a favor and now I VIRTUALLY OWE YOU ANOTHER FAVOR". Conversely, refusing a favor can insult the offerer and poison them to future favors. A favor will only rot in your pocket. Use favors as seeds; accept them so that they may bear fruit and give them freely so that there is more fruit to go around.
5) Check out the brilliant (though embarrassingly outdated) UMEC Handbook.
http://www.um-ec.org/UMEChandbook.pdf
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