Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
“This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one.”
“Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them.”