I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.
The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

