Campbell enthusiastically proposes that Cape Breton people would be very compelling as soap characters. They're very eccentric, they're smart, they're funny and there's a lot of intercommunication in the neighbourhoods. In Toronto, there's less so, in a bigger city. I think people would tune in. It sounds like a great concept.
Subject has ability to sell ideas on enthusiasm alone.
He has been offered a project to direct a documentary on World War I, but can't commit because of his obligation to Da Vinci. Campbell would still love to do it, excitedly talking about the richness of Canadian history from those years. When you see the match lit, and by the time you have cocked the gun and fired, it's the third guy who will get shot, he explains. Remark that I have never smoked, which surprises him. Well, maybe I inhaled once or twice a long time ago, just kid stuff, which he finds funny.