Daily Inspiration Quote by Tony Scott

The slipperiness of "IT" is the whole play here: a blank tile you can slide over any inconvenient obstacle without ever naming it. In a corporate-adjacent sentence like this, vagueness is not a flaw but a strategy. "We don't ever want" performs concern and stewardship, while quietly asserting control over the narrative. It's a preemptive exoneration: whatever the problem is (technology, bureaucracy, risk, legacy systems, internal politics), Scott positions himself and his team as the adults in the room, already thinking past it.

Put "GM" in the center and the line reads like crisis-era brand triage. General Motors carries decades of symbolic baggage: American industrial pride, slow-moving legacy culture, the specter of decline, the constant pressure to modernize. Saying "holds GM back" taps that anxiety. It's not just about a production bottleneck; it's about a company haunted by the fear of becoming irrelevant. The sentence flatters the institution (GM deserves to surge forward) while acknowledging, in the safest possible phrasing, that something inside it could sabotage that momentum.

Coming from a director, it also has a creative-industry echo: the idea that craft should disappear into the experience. "IT" can be the tool, the effects, the process, the corporate machinery behind the spectacle. The intent is to keep attention on forward motion and outcomes, not on the messy apparatus. Subtext: we know the audience/investors/public are watching for stumbles, so let's make sure the machinery never becomes the story.