Justine Bateman, starting around 4:30 mark: Before streamers and tech companies came to regard more or less everything as content, “the goal was this excellence…you wanted to be associated with something really good…something that would last beyond this era…[back then it was almost] shameful to do something [just] for money…sometimes you had to but you didn’t feel good about it.
“But what happened 10 years ago was that [we had] this streaming situation and studio chiefs chasing after the streamers and not wanting to look like chumps, so [that] really screwed things up. The studios started looking at films and TV series just as content. There have been exceptions over the last 10 years, of course, but the focus became volume content.”