Quotes About Trends

Earlier we used to enjoy films for 25 weeks, Silver jubilee, and Golden jubilee; but now it takes only 3 days to recover the cost.

With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.

By the time buzzwords appear in the popular press, there's probably a bunch of us in the development trenches pulling out our hair and weeping.

You see those guys wearing baggy pants, descendants of the parachute pants, wearing an odd, weird Frankenstein haircut. It all comes out of Peter Lorre.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

When dubstep was big, Ubisoft told the composer for 'Far Cry 3' to make dubstep and to me that was really weird.

It's such a weird thing nowadays, too, when people are fans of the songs and not the bands.

Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a little screwy.

If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

Human nature doesn't change. When enough people are comfortable enough financially, there is going to be human nature that wants to spend more money on better quality and, to some degree, status symbols as well.

I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

The crests and troughs in Covid-19 cases and the spikes and falls of daily infographics by which we now measure the wellness of our lives have been based mostly on city-driven data.

I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

Pop is everything from Kanye West to Taylor Swift, it's all pop to me.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

Western films don't do very well in India.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.

Baby fashion has become such a big thing. It used to be that everything had to be pink or blue or cute - you know, very precious - but not cool. But now, my friends who are mothers really want to dress their kids just like themselves.

You can never predict a hit.

Networks love data. They love to be able to look at numbers and try to predict what they think will work.

Well, 'Diablo III' went from no players to over 10 million in a very short period of time. It's really difficult to predict that type of response.