About Roger Vadim: Roger Vadim was a French screenwriter, film director/and producer, as well as an author and occasional actor.
You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.
I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.
I shudder at the image they would piece together.