Daily Inspiration Quote by Anthony Michael Hall

Hall’s “obviously” does a lot of work here: it’s the verbal shrug of someone watching an industry shift so large it almost feels impolite to call it an opinion. Coming from a former teen icon who grew up inside a tightly gated studio system, the line reads like both relief and recalibration. Cable and satellite don’t just add channels; they dilute the old choke points that decided who got to work, who got to lead, and which stories were “worth” telling.

The intent is pragmatic, almost managerial: more platforms mean more content, which means more jobs. But the subtext is about power moving downstream. When programming multiplies, gatekeeping gets harder. The old model ran on scarcity: a few networks, a handful of prime-time slots, massive stakes, and an obsession with lowest-common-denominator safety. Hall’s list - “actors and producers and directors and everything” - is tellingly democratic. He’s sketching a rising tide economy where creative labor across the ladder benefits, not just marquee stars.

Context matters: this is the early language of what would later be branded as “Peak TV,” before streaming turned abundance into overload. Cable once promised a middle class for entertainers: more pilots, more niche dramas, more weird little projects that couldn’t survive network math. Hall frames it as opportunity, not artistry, because working actors understand the real revolution wasn’t prestige. It was volume. And volume, for better and worse, is what keeps careers alive.