[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.

Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It's a miracle, it is magic.

[Doctor Strange] is still quite cocky by the end of the film. No, I'd say the major curve for him is that he learns that it's not all about him, that there's a greater good. But what he thinks he was doing as a neurosurgeon, that was good because it benefitted people's health was really just a furtherment of his attempts to control death and control his own fate and other people's, but that's still driven by the ego.

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

I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

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.