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'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

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.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

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.

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