There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think. When I walk through that door, it's about home. If I didn't do that, I'd become consumed by one thing only and damage the people who love me. And it would damage the work.

There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.

I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.