I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited.

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

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

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.

It's one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it's a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there's the whole chapter before where he's the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It's fantastic.