DeVon Franklin Shares the Keys to Green-lighting Your Career
buzzz worthy. . . Author and Senior Film Executive DeVon Franklin shares that integrity is the key to success in Hollywood. Photo credit: Laura Locke/ARC LOS ANGELES -- As a senior executive in the film industry and a man of faith, DeVon Franklin knows all too well the challenges of working in Hollywood and maintaining a high moral standard by not reducing one's values in return for a chance at career advancement. Over the past 15 years Franklin worked his way up the corporate ladder, from Overbrook Entertainment intern to Senior Vice President at Columbia Pictures through hard work, fervent prayer and integrity. He addressed a packed room of aspiring actors, directors and producers at the Artist Resource Center in North Hollywood to make one thing very clear: You don't have to compromise who you are to get where you're going! "Don't want the job so bad that you compromise who God is to get it," said Franklin. "The bible says do not...