All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
It just seemed to me to be a great story, set back in its time but something that seemed to have relevance for our time. Now that the film is coming out, it looks like we're back in another time where repression of expression is all the rage.
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand them.