Creativity Quote by Marc Davis

There is nothing romantic here about “making it” in Hollywood, and that’s exactly the point. Marc Davis frames arrival not as a fateful leap but as a transaction: connections, a publisher, a promise of work. The sentence moves like someone reading off the practical inventory that actually underwrites creative careers. “I had some connections” is a quiet admission that talent rarely travels alone; it arrives escorted by social proof. Even the repeated, almost shrugging “and” does rhetorical work, flattening the mythic into the mundane, as if to say: this is how it’s done, no dramatics required.

The subtext is an artist’s early negotiation with an industry that sells dreams while running on logistics. Davis doesn’t present himself as a starry-eyed outsider; he sounds like a working professional already fluent in the ecosystem of favors and referrals. “Promised me work” carries both hope and a faint caution: promises are soft currency in Hollywood, often honored, sometimes not. The “and so on” is doing heavy lifting too, compressing a whole bundle of implied terms - networking, timing, willingness to take what’s offered - into a casual afterthought. It’s the verbal equivalent of waving off the unglamorous parts.

Context matters: for a 20th-century artist moving through the orbit of studios and media, newspapers were an on-ramp into the entertainment machine. The line captures Hollywood not as a place that discovers you, but as a place you access - through people, through institutions, through a chain of introductions that turns “artist” into “employed.”