Kevin Feige said to me: "I don't think we've ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally." I'll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.

It's always important to have the blessing.

Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.