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

My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think "Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.