[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a nasty person. I just think he's closed-off.

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.

I'm not one for doing the children's party version: "Hi, I'm a character in a movie and now I'm in reality!" I was doing the last shot of the film before reshoots outside their shop. I was starting my run into the frame and I thought, "You are literally ending where this began. The loop of serendipity's too much to not go in and acknowledge it." I just wanted to see the look on their faces.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.