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[on Shining (1980)] The only straight person is the mother. That's important: the mother is completely normal, fighting for her son - who's also a little bit funny. Stanley thought that was a real challenge. In a way it's a fairy tale, a gruesome fairy tale that - like all fairy tales that we tell to children - have an element of realism. As unrealistic as fairy tales always are, if there wasn't a reality that we could translate into our own fantasy, in our own life, it would be boring. The interest is only because of a potential reality.

[on his brother-in-law Stanley Kubrick] I believe I am relatively objective when I say that he belongs to a group of artists in the second half of the 20th century that are relevant, just as artists in previous times are relevant. We take very much to heart Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens and all these people in order to understand what happened in England in the 19th century. So, if a future generation wants to know about the second half of the 20th century, they will certainly hit on Stanley Kubrick, as they will hit on some others such as Ingmar Bergman or Denys Arcand.