Doing a budget on documentary 10 years ago was two days work for somebody. Now I call my associate producer, and we can have a budget in an hour. I'm sure that will happen. With a ballpoint pen, anyone can write a novel. There just might be a lot of lousy novels.
Television is essentially just a fire hose for crap and junk.
It's good for democracy. But with it, you'll find there are many wonderful documentaries that otherwise wouldn't get made. If there are great documentaries mixed in with the junk, that's fine. We're not interested in making the same old films cheaply. Instead we're interested in finding new ways of storytelling and new subjects that naturally lend themselves to inexpensive filmmaking.