The truth is, I'm drawn to all kinds of things.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.