Philip Kaufman

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.

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.

And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.