Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it's not all about him.

I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

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.