Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the '60s and '70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

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

I was never geeky about anything.

I have actual acting scars.

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

I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.