Tom Ford says he “wasn’t comfortable at all” with the de-gaying of trailer for “A Single Man”

There’s been a lot of talk about the latest trailer for “A Single Man,” which removes all of the most overtly gay elements from your original trailer. Were you comfortable with that?
I wasn’t comfortable with it at all. I think our society is a bit twisted. The first trailer is the one that I cut before we had a distributor, and I wish I could have left it intact. But we had to do a trailer that was more broadly accessible to a wider audience. Kissing between two men is considered adult content, and there are only certain places that you can run trailers that show it. It’s very strange, because you can turn on HBO and see full-frontal male nudity — but for some reason, things are more restrictive in cinema.

What’s next? Back to fashion design, or more films?

Oh, I hope I’m lucky enough to make many more films. Really, I’m more proud of this than anything I’ve accomplished in my life, apart from personal relationships. I’m not somebody who necessarily fears death, but while I was making this, I was terrified that I was going to die before I finished it. It was that important to me.

It was the most fun I’ve had in my entire life, and it means the most to me. Because I think it’s the first time, maybe, that I have really expressed things that are very personal. I’m usually quite reserved, and I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve or show my emotions in a way that people can see. So to put that much of myself into something, and then send it out into the world, it was really the first time I’d ever done that.