Love Quote by Mary Schmich

Taste gets sold as a stable identity - the kind of thing you can list in a dating profile and call it a personality. Mary Schmich punctures that fantasy with a journalist's calm precision. The movies "we love and admire" aren't permanent fixtures in the canon of Me; they're souvenirs from a particular version of ourselves. It's a small sentence with a big, slightly unsettling implication: your favorite film may be less a verdict on quality than a snapshot of your private weather.

The sly force is in "to some extent". Schmich isn't doing the cheap relativist move that says all art is arbitrary. She's acknowledging craft and greatness while insisting that reception is personal and time-bound. What hits at 17 - the romance that feels like destiny, the rebellion that feels like permission - might clang at 37, when you hear the same dialogue as entitlement or self-deception. Conversely, a movie that once seemed slow can become a lifeline when you've lived long enough to recognize its silences.

Contextually, this lands in an era where algorithms promise to know what you like better than you do, and fandom often treats preference as a moral stance. Schmich reframes movie love as a meeting, not a possession: a film arrives when your experiences, anxieties, and hopes are primed to receive it. The subtext is generous and corrective. If your friend doesn't get your beloved movie, it doesn't mean they're wrong; it means they're somewhere else in their life.