Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

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.

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.

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.