I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.
I read very little contemporary anything.
Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.
The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently.
There's been a lot of aesthetically rich horror films that have come out in the last several years. 'The Babadook' is this perfectly paced, beautiful film. 'The Witch' is a beautifully made film. 'Get Out' is so intelligently written. I feel like there's so many great things happening right now.
A lot of actors seem to dislike typecasting these days. The funny thing is, that's a fairly recent development. It used to be that actors wanted to be typecast so audiences could remember them and identify with them.
The aggressive, energised, political, or even politicised, culturally aware music hasn't really existed [recently].
It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.
There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places.
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.
Some people buy art because they're confident that it'll be a good store value, and this is kind of a recent phenomenon.
