"The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology"
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Coming from a producer who’s moved through multiple regimes of Hollywood power, the quote doubles as a résumé compressed into a shrug. Katzenberg lived the shift from theatrical dominance to home video, DVD to digital, broadcast schedules to on-demand, and now the algorithmic stack that decides what gets made, marketed, and buried. “Rapid” is doing heavy lifting: it signals urgency and excuses misfires. If the ground is always shifting, then pivots, layoffs, and strategic “reinventions” start to look like prudence instead of instability.
There’s also a subtle defense of craft under the cloak of tech talk. Producers like Katzenberg traffic in stories, talent, and taste - things that resist quantification. When he foregrounds technology as the main variable, he’s drawing a border: the fundamentals of storytelling remain, but the pipes, distribution, and attention economy have been radically rewired. It’s less prophecy than positioning: an industry veteran claiming realism, and a seat at the table, in a world increasingly run by the people who built the table.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Katzenberg, Jeffrey. (2026, January 15). The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-thing-thats-changed-the-most-has-just-been-158616/
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Katzenberg, Jeffrey. "The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-thing-thats-changed-the-most-has-just-been-158616/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-thing-thats-changed-the-most-has-just-been-158616/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.





