“Headland: I had been working at Miramax and the Weinstein Company for almost five years. I only worked for Harvey for the last year of that. I didn’t leave because of him, but because I realized that, for all intents and purposes, I had been stuck in an entry-level job for a really long time. And I noticed that a lot of people my age were in a similar situation. They weren’t being mentored, it was just sort of doing people’s dirty work for them, and I thought, why do we keep doing this? Why are we still in this position? And when I worked for Harvey directly, I actually did get somebody who was definitely challenging to work for, but somebody who actually encouraged me. He said, ‘Aren’t you a writer? Why are you still here?’ And he actually read through some of my work and really challenged me to leave in a lot of ways, and say, ‘You know, you could stay and become a producer, and I can teach you how to do that, but you’re a good writer, and if you want to be a writer, you have to go and do it – you have to actually write. You can’t hang out at my desk and write in secret.’ So that’s what the experience of working there and then leaving was like.”

— Bachelorette director, playwright, and writer Leslye Headland, you are very smart (and I have loved you since your blog Cinephilia). I have more to say about what she’s talking about - I think it’s very true considering the shrinking of media from 2000 - 2010, and I think that stasis/stagnancy with careers, which I have observed with my peers, has something to do with the visceral, sometimes gross, sometimes telling resentment of do-everything millennials with Emmy-nominated HBO shows and/or rapping careers as side projects. Or Ira Glass-mentored phenomenons who are amazing and don’t seem to be actual real people because they can’t be, can they? Anyways.