Daily Inspiration Quote by Daniel Petrie

“There has been a change in attitude, though” is director-speak at its most revealing: a mild, almost throwaway clause that smuggles in a whole drama of power, taste, and timing. Daniel Petrie isn’t naming the fight outright; he’s marking the weather. The phrase “there has been” puts the shift at a safe distance, like an objective fact rather than a battle won through pressure, protest, box-office proof, or quiet compromise. Then “though” does the real work: it’s the hinge that suggests resistance, a previous statement being qualified, a door not fully opened.

Coming from a working director who moved through mid-century film and television, the line fits the era’s constant recalibration: what networks would air, what studios would bankroll, what audiences were newly willing to see, what censors or sponsors would tolerate. Petrie’s career intersected with projects that tested social nerves, and this sentence reads like the careful language of someone who knows how quickly an industry will congratulate itself for “progress” while keeping the same old gatekeepers in place.

The intent is pragmatic, almost tactical. He’s signaling change without overstating it, leaving room for the listener to infer the cause: shifting politics, evolving norms, generational turnover, or the hard economics of attention. The subtext is both hopeful and wary: attitudes can change, but they can also revert. In seven words, Petrie captures the entertainment business’s favorite self-myth - that it’s always moving forward - while quietly admitting it rarely does so without being pushed.