Daily Inspiration Quote by Rene Auberjonois

Industrial TV runs on a treadmill, and Rene Auberjonois is politely describing the bruises. The line is all backstage realism: twenty-six episodes a season is a workload that forces a show to prioritize motion over perfection. He’s not complaining so much as translating the economics of network-era storytelling into human terms. When you have to feed an audience every week, the “ideal version” of an episode is a luxury item.

The phrasing matters. “They’ve got to” frames the schedule as an external law, not a choice, shifting blame away from individual writers or actors and toward the machine. “Beat their heads up against a wall” is vivid and bodily; it turns creative revision into self-harm, implying that endless tinkering isn’t noble artistry, it’s masochism. Even the hedges - “like,” “pan out” - signal an actor navigating critique without sounding like he’s indicting colleagues. It’s diplomacy wrapped around a hard truth.

The subtext is a quiet defense of TV craftsmanship: if something doesn’t land, it’s not necessarily because people didn’t care, but because the system doesn’t allow infinite care. Contextually, this is the pre-streaming model, when long seasons demanded rapid iteration, bottle episodes, and pragmatic compromises. Auberjonois’s intent is to recalibrate expectations: judge the work with an awareness of the conditions it was made under, and recognize that sometimes “good enough, on time” is the only way art gets made at all.