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.
And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
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.
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.
