The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

The City: A Global History.

We're not aware of any history of seizures or blackouts.

[Not that the story makes any better sense.] This one, ... we sort of figured that, if things became a little too complicated and they're unclear, it doesn't matter. I mean ... this is similar to Chandler. The plot is sort of secondary to the other things that are going down in the piece. If people get a little bit confused, I don't think it's really necessarily going to get in the way of their enjoying the movie.

They went in a little down spell in 2000. So if history goes back to 2000, this is a scenario that does make sense. But the theory that is jumping on a brand new bandwagon, it's just not there.

It was sort of imagining him in the context of a (Raymond) Chandler kind of story that got us started on the script.