Art & Creativity Quote by Corbin Bernsen

Bernsen’s line lands like an actor’s version of a pocket constitution: if you want to talk about “jobs,” stop treating production as a glamorous abstraction and start counting paychecks. The intent is bluntly corrective. He’s pushing back on a political vocabulary that often frames job loss as an almost metaphysical force - automation, immigrants, “the economy” - while ignoring the very literal decision-making that sends a crew to Vancouver, Prague, or Atlanta for tax breaks.

The subtext is class and craft. Film and TV culture trains audiences to see stars, not labor. Bernsen drags the invisible workforce into frame: production assistants, camera operators, editors, music supervisors, the people who build the thing you binge. By listing departments, he’s not just itemizing; he’s insisting on legitimacy. These aren’t “Hollywood” jobs in the caricatured sense. They’re middle-class trades with mortgages attached, the kind of work politicians love to invoke and rarely picture accurately.

Contextually, this sits inside the long, quiet offshoring of entertainment labor - runaway production driven by incentives and cheaper costs. Bernsen’s phrasing, “now that’s taking away jobs,” borrows the cadence of populist grievance and reroutes it toward studio accounting. It’s a savvy rhetorical move: he meets the audience where the outrage already lives, then changes the target from scapegoats to balance sheets. The “A hundred people or more” tag is the closer, a reminder that every “location choice” is a small employment ecosystem.