One of the things about Derek Jarman was that he was a painter who worked alone when he painted, but I firmly believe that one of the reasons he made films was for the company. He made filmmakers of all of us, that's the truth. I don't mean he necessarily made directors, but he made us filmmakers. Because we lived in a state of mutual responsibility for what we made.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.

When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that it was 11 years ago that we started to talk about a kind of cinema that we wanted to make together.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I've done for most of my working life. It's work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.

It's wonderful to actually have an opportunity to get real and show how complicated and fascinating sex is.