Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read.
If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?
I don't have any particular wish to be polemical or didactic; I don't have a 'message', but what I do thoroughly enjoy are those works of art, not necessarily in the cinema, but in the other arts as well, which have an encyclopaedic world.
Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
Churchill was a good writer but a bad historian.