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.
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.
Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.
I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.
