Companies are more fluid and adaptive now and can respond more quickly to change. I think most of the changes have been for the better.

To be competitive, you no longer could have a slow, hierarchical, command-and-control decision-making process that was also far removed from the customer. You make a product-decision mistake or miss a product generation, and that could be fatal in a fast-moving world.

The industry started out with an authoritarian kind of command-and-control model. And the structure was static and rigid.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does

Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.

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