My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.
The true historian … reveres the fact rather than any theory.
UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.
I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.
Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?
With my research, I really need absolute confirmation of what actually happened, direct physical connections to the past.
There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.
If you can't trust your president to get the right information on a Googleable fact, then can you really trust him with the harder stuff? Which, by the way, is everything else the president of the United States has to deal with.
