What he's really talking about - and I'm speaking for Mike Flynn, not Donald Trump - is that he's saying, essentially, we have to have options. We have to have a lot of options. And, frankly, we do. We do have a lot of options.
Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing.
I've never consciously chased a particular kind of a film or role. I choose from what is offered.
That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.
People have to know that there are options available to us today. There is another way, and it is practical and applicable now.
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
Your range of available choices - right now - is limitless.
Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.
But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.