I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

At times I can't help going for visual comfort. Sometimes a picture fills up your head, and you try to move the actors around to make that visual statement.

I'm not a master of films. I'm rather a slave.

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me