Remembering The Boozy, Wild Beginnings Of The Toronto Film Festival

“The first was a success, but not the way I thought it would be: It was a very duct-taped situation. Before this, Toronto was a dull black-and-white town. You went out to the opera, had a glass of punch, then went home. But we were partying as hard as we could into the small hours of the morning. We brought out the rock-and-roll side of Toronto.”