Time & Perspective Quote by Gregory Harrison

There’s a quiet demotion embedded in Harrison’s phrasing: “other than being a producer” is framed like a technicality, not a creative calling. In an industry where titles multiply faster than residuals, he’s drawing a line between participation and authorship. Producing can mean power, prestige, and control - or it can mean meetings, emails, and responsibility without the rush that made you fall in love with the work in the first place. Harrison is telling you which version he’s living now.

The sentence is studded with gentle exits. “We were doing plays and movies” keeps the work communal and slightly distant, a shared project rather than a personal mission. “Which I had nothing to do with” isn’t literal (producers do plenty), but it’s emotionally accurate: he didn’t feel artistically implicated. That’s the subtext - not burnout exactly, but a recalibration of what feels worth his attention. The final turn, “I don’t have that kind of interest or time any more,” is less apology than boundary-setting. Time is the socially acceptable reason; interest is the honest one.

Contextually, this reads like a veteran actor navigating the second act of a career: less hunger for credit-by-association, less patience for roles that dilute the craft into management. It’s also an understated critique of how entertainment work expands to fill your life. Harrison isn’t romanticizing the grind; he’s choosing selectivity over omnipresence, and making that sound like sanity rather than surrender.