I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

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.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

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

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.