Time & Perspective Quote by Aaron Spelling

Spelling makes exhaustion sound like a luxury product: "a lot of good work". The line is a tidy piece of producer-speak, equal parts confession and brand maintenance. He lets you glimpse the strain of running four shows at once, but he frames it as a gratifying overload rather than a warning sign. That rhetorical move matters because Spelling's genius was never auteur mystique; it was industrial velocity. He sold television as a pipeline, and here he describes the pipeline from inside it: outlines, scripts, rough cuts, repeat.

The specificity is the point. By listing the weekly inputs, he turns creativity into logistics, the way a studio executive might talk about shipping schedules. It's a subtle flex, too. Four shows concurrently signals power in an ecosystem where attention is currency and "busy" reads as indispensable. Yet he can't quite keep the human cost out of the sentence. "It does wear you out" lands like a small truth he allows himself after the upbeat pitch, the moment the machinery shows heat.

Contextually, this is peak network-era TV: long seasons, fast turnarounds, relentless audience demand, and producers as managers of tone and throughput more than singular artistic vision. The subtext is a defense of mass production as craft. Spelling wants credit not for suffering, but for stamina - for turning entertainment into a disciplined, repeatable operation while still insisting it's "fun". That insistence is the tell: if you have to say it's fun, you're also trying to convince yourself.