As you correctly mentioned, I've been around for a very long time, and my career has had several stages. For a big chunk of it, I was a jack of all trades. Yes, I produced the auteur films, but we also distributed films, and not just Canadian films, but a lot of American movies. We produced hundreds of hours of television shows and sold them globally. We had offices all over the world. At that point in my life, the cinéma d'auteur was really a sideline, a personal passion. It wasn't the basis on which Alliance—which, when I sold it, had a market cap of close to a billion dollars—was built. I'd be fooling you if I said it was.
Afterwards, however, I gave myself permission to make only films that I personally wanted to see, which was not the determining factor up until then because I was building a company. For the last 15 or 16 years, I've made films that I wanted to see.