shifting preferences Quotes

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

There's nobody I don't like. Maybe in six years it will be different.

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today.

Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise.

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

Sometimes you fall in love with some things and then you fall out of love with it.

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

There was that moment of, "Oh, my parents are watching Columbo and I hate it" to "No, I love this show, too." And I feel like, for me, that was around 11 or 12, where I could actually join my parents in their viewing and wasn't so irritated that they were always watching Columbo.

The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.