this| tribute to jeremy thomas in results, in my opinion. phen frears and nicolas roeg, to mentionjust frears and nicolas roeg, to mention just a few. with them, he's created excellent, memorable cinema. when it comes to the film industry today, jeremy thomas is somewhat melancholic.— jeremy thomas is somewhat melancholic. i'm having great difficulty making _ melancholic. i'm having great difficulty making films - difficulty making films independently now. i'm trying to do it, but i can't say it's easy. it's very difficult. and i'm sure i will have to make films for others in the future if i want to continue making films. �* ., ., films. although thomas may find it hard to make _ films. although thomas may find it hard to make independent - it hard to make independent films now, he's had a very successful career. to him, the secret has been not to produce films because you want to make money, but because you believe in them. �* ., money, but because you believe in them. �* . , ., . in them. i'm a film producer who hasn't _ in them. i'm a film

i asked jeremy thomas to explain. who's an entrepreneurial producer — likes some material, likes a subject, likes a director — and i'll option the book and i'll develop it myself with my own resources. and i've been like that from the beginning. and it's a way that you — you keep the control of your film until the last possible moment, you give it away. the documentary the storms 0fjeremy thomas, directed by mark cousins, shows the producer driving down to the cannes film festival — an annual ritual. he knows some of the most famous and powerful people in the movie industry, but he is not an intimidating figure. directors and actors who work with him generally really like him. among his disciples is tilda swinton, who gets quite gushy in her praise. we're going to really go for it and describe jeremy as some kind of manifestation human — superhuman manifestation of cinema. 0ne job of a film producer is to handle movie stars. sometimes, they can be temperamental. it's part ofjeremy thomas' job to calm things down. i'm