What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.
Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.
An artist must either give up art or develop.
Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.