“Have you ever watched a movie set in the present where a guy was, say, using a pay phone, and thought, ‘Man, how old are these writers? Use your cellphone!’ The thing is, writers often reference not real life, but the shows they grew up watching as kids. So they wind up writing scenes that made sense in the 1970s, but are hopelessly out of date today. That’s why in movies and TV…” w/ photos
