Time & Perspective Quote by Jason Marsden

It lands like a small confession with a punchline: the kid who couldn’t stop buying movie soundtracks, and the social tax he paid for it. Marsden frames the habit as a “time,” a phase, but the phrasing gives it weight - a little era of outsider identity. “I used to get made fun of a lot” isn’t dramatic; it’s tossed in almost casually, which is exactly why it stings. He’s signaling that the ridicule was normalized, routine, part of the background noise of growing up.

Soundtracks are a particularly telling obsession. They’re not just “music”; they’re music tethered to narrative, to scenes, to emotional cues. Collecting them suggests a person drawn to story, atmosphere, and feeling in a way that’s maybe more private than collectible rock albums or whatever counted as cool. For an actor, that detail reads like an origin story: someone wired to the emotional architecture of films, paying attention to how art tells you what to feel and when.

The subtext is also about taste policing. Soundtracks sit in that liminal space between fandom and artistry, and culturally they’ve often been treated as secondary, not “real” music. Marsden’s line quietly rebukes that hierarchy while keeping the tone self-deprecating, the classic move of anyone who’s been teased: minimize the wound so you can share it.

In context, it’s a reminder that today’s “curated niche” used to be a target. The quote turns a once-mocked specificity into proof of a lifelong sensibility.