The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.
If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.
The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
I think back to my time in children's television, back in the 1970s, and the amount of innovation that was going on then. Because the mass market wasn't focused on it, so you had a freedom to do amazing things, like 'Vision On,' and 'Tiswas.'
The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
There are moments when television systems are young and haven't formed properly, and there's room for lots of original stuff. Then things become more and more top-heavy with executives who are trying to guarantee the success of things.
If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.