I'm interested in stories about people as we knew them in the near-recent future.

Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A.

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.

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.

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.

And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.