He was angered when the studio wanted to update it to a contemporary setting.
The earlier series updated the stories by giving them a contemporary setting.
In contemporary urban settings communities are formed of diverse people.
The story went back in time to the 1960's and forward to a contemporary setting.
Here, though, the contemporary setting lends the questions a new moral urgency.
"I wasn't interested in making a record that took the songs and made them into a contemporary setting," Dylan says.
The novel has a contemporary setting and is about people who meet for an extraordinary dinner party.
I would love to see what your style and subject matter would be like in a contemporary setting.
The film takes place in present day, with many of the circumstances updated to a contemporary setting.