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The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction. There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show someone doing something that would have been perfectly normal for the time but that is considered reprehensible today.

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

History is so subjective. The teller of it determines it.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.