Daily Inspiration Quote by Tom Berenger

There’s a weary, insider bite to Berenger’s line: it’s not outrage delivered for applause, but the kind of blunt diagnosis you hear from someone who’s watched the same story replay across decades of Hollywood regime changes. “In this industry” sets the scene as a closed ecosystem with its own physics. Then comes the loaded phrase “new owners” - less artists than asset managers, inheritors of catalogs, franchises, and studio libraries. The verb “prefer” is key: this isn’t necessity or creative conviction, it’s taste, habit, even ideology.

“Kill anything they weren’t responsible for” reads like exaggeration, but it lands because it maps onto a recognizable corporate impulse: control the narrative by erasing competitors, predecessors, and inconvenient histories. If you didn’t create it, you can’t take credit for it; if you can’t take credit, it’s a threat to your authority. The subtext is about ego, yes, but also about branding. In a consolidation era, executives inherit sprawling slates and legacy projects. The easiest way to signal “a new chapter” is to cancel, bury, or reboot - a symbolic bonfire that clears space for your own fingerprints.

Berenger’s phrasing also smuggles in grief for the collateral damage: careers stalled, films shelved, stories abandoned midstream. It’s a quiet indictment of an industry that treats art like inventory. The line works because it’s cynical without being abstract; you can practically see the memo that turns someone’s life’s work into “not aligned with our strategy.”