Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.

The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.

I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that we've trashed our education institutions beyond repair, people fear that the only people are getting their histories is through the movies, so the elephant in the room is that no one wants to talk about why we're so passionately obsessed with accuracy.