I'll tell you one thing, and this is banal to say because it just makes it sound like it's all planned, and nothing is planned at all. But one link is with The Deep End, and one link is that I'm making a film later on that revolves around the relationship between an innocent party and a dead body.

A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.

I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.

What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.

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.

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

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.