“The easiest way to win an Oscar is by playing a famous dead person. Since there’s no scoreboard when it comes to judging art, a lot of folks fall back on ‘accuracy’ as a metric. I have a hunch this is why movies based on true stories always end with archival footage of their real-life subjects. It’s like putting the answers in the back of textbooks.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 02/20/2019