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

There was a moment of extraordinary humbleness and humility and pride, as well, with my father when he turned to me - and I think it was after I played Salieri in "Amadeus" at university. And he said, You're better than I ever was or ever could be, you should do this for profession. You'd have a good time.

[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he's not afraid to go to dark places.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.

I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.

I just want to bring people in a little bit to the idea of sitting down on a Sunday three consecutive weeks and having that water cooler moment that really was a sort of a national sensation in the U.K., 'cause it's kind of fun.